On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28.1.2010, at 2.37, Brandon Lamb wrote: > >> Hopefully this isnt TOO general of a question. >> >> I have a raid server that runs dovecot and exports via nfs the maildir >> format store. >> I have 4 mail servers running exim that use dovecot to deliver over nfs > > What about your Dovecot servers, how many of them do you have? > >> I have been examing our entire setup and had the thought, would it be >> recommended to instead have another exim process running directly on >> the raid server and have my mail servers deliver mail to that rather >> than over nfs, if that makes sense? >> >> So mail would go from our postini frontend => mail cluster => final >> delivery via exim on raid server. >> >> Seems like this way I could make all the nfs config options go away and such. > > The problems with NFS go away if user's mails are never concurrently accessed > by more than one server. It doesn't matter if the other server is another NFS > client or the NFS server itself. > > So if you have a single Dovecot IMAP/POP server, the only way to avoid NFS > issues is by having that same server also deliver the mails.
Thats what I am thinking. I run the single imap/pop dovecot server directly on the raid, been working fantastic for us with some 16k pop accounts, 450gigs or so. Now I am thinking of taking that same thinking and getting rid of the deliver over nfs and deliver directly to the raid server like you said.
