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Michael Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Feb 3, 2007, at 12:41 AM, Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
>>
>> Are we delivering email into AFS?
>
> I don't know how we're currently planning to set up home directories
> w.r.t. AFS, so I have no idea.

Thinking about this some more, we should probably *not* deliver mail
to an AFS volume, because there is no good reason (that I can think
of) do so, and one rather significant reason to not do so (namely:
overhead).

If anyone can think of a good reason to do this, let me know.

Also, can someone please refresh my memory about what we've decided
with respect to putting home directories in AFS?  If we have decided
to put home dirs completely in AFS, mail would have to be delivered
elsewhere, but then we would still need AFS credentials in order to
access the user's .procmailrc and .forward.

So, may I suggest that we put homes under a local NFS partition, which
would only be exported to the machines in the rack?  Or failing that,
deliver mail to a separate NFS volume outside of home, but with areas
for each user?  The NFS server would be deleuze, so that mail gets
delivered locally and puts less stress on the NFS server (lots of
small files == much pain for NFS).  Then squirrelmail and courier
could also serve mail locally, without having to access many small
files across the network.

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