-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 October 2003 17:34, Nate Duehr wrote:
> It doesn't scale (with mbox) to hundreds of machines, and many > implementations of NFS on non-linux systems don't implement file-locking > properly, which especially hurts mbox. Oh aye, the exclamation mark was to bring home the point that it was a pretty silly thing to do, but it worked. > Doing maildir over NFS is a perfectly valid way to do this, but you end > up with at least three boxes... a highly redundant NFS file server and > mail servers tied to it. Not necessarily. You *can* do it with just one box (no redundancy), or 2 boxes (failover mailstore, and backup MX), or 3, or 4, or 5, or ...... Apart from the load, or any monetary issues, I see no reason why a "fileserver" can't do mail too. - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kBzYInuLMrk7bIwRAsVOAKCZIR7OZpLyVwEpcAnRuIg5K582PACgg8SL 6lW8r2wYVF1NxhprBfCdRws= =Bhad -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
