On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Nancy Lin wrote:
Are there any free imap server solutions out there where it's NFS safe? I
did a quick search and it seems that cyrus isn't and dovecot only kind of is.
Maybe NFS just generally doesn't work?
You hit the nail on the head: NFS just generally doesn't work.
I apologize if I've tended to sound testy on the topic in recent messages.
I've spent the past 20 years of my life beating my head against a wall
getting NFS to "kind of work" for those people who refuse to believe when
I say "don't use NFS."
UW imapd goes through heroic efforts to keep traditional UNIX format files
from being corrupted when accessed via NFS. Among other things, those
efforts slow down the handling of traditional UNIX format files for
everybody, even those who do not use NFS.
If it weren't for sites that insist upon using NFS, the handling of
traditional UNIX format files in UW imapd would be much faster; at least
twice as fast, probably more.
There is no attempt to make any other format work over NFS. I know, for a
fact, that mbx format files are easily corrupted by NFS access. I have
cookbook procedures for doing it.
-- Mark --
http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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