On Friday 08 June 2001 10:49, Brian May wrote: > Russell> If the NFS server has the same disk system then you will > Russell> only make things worse. Anything you could do to give > Russell> the NFS server better IO performance could more > Russell> productively be done to the main server. Also many of > Russell> the common Unix mail server programs are specifically > Russell> designed to have the queue on a local file system with > Russell> standard Unix semantics (Inode numbers etc). Qmail is > Russell> one mail server that I have found to not work with it's > Russell> queue on NFS, I haven't seriously tried any others. I've > Russell> CC'd Brian May because he does a lot more NFS stuff with > Russell> Debian than most people and he may be able to advise you. > > It depends on how much you want to share via NFS, what speed/type > network you have, etc.
Jason has previously stated that he only wants a single machine and wants things to be as cheap as possible. > The idea of putting any queue on NFS is generally discouraged (due to > file locking issues). Maildir is one exception to this rule. Maildir != queue... -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
