NFS share

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Wed Mar 4 16:55:46 EST 2015


On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, at 10:57 PM, Niels Dettenbach wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 4. März 2015, 18:49:54 schrieb Alexey Shilin:
> > I want to be able to mount /var/spoo/imap over NFS. All the other cyrus
> > files belong to the local drive.
> > 
> > The NFS share will be used exclusively by the cyrus server.
> This is possible (or what do you want to hear ß) - we have some installations 
> where the mail spool is mounted by NFS and even the performance is OK as long 
> as the underlying network is fast enough (bandwidth/latencies).
> 
> Not shure how far NFS caching cloud improve here (on the cost of which 
> reliability in case i.e. of a crash or similiar) - we never used that 
> ntil2day.

I guess spool itself on NFS is OK.  I wouldn't put mailboxes.db on there though,
so much locking.

Bron.

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