Excerpts from transarc.external.info-afs: 24-Oct-96 Re: AFS-based mail
spool... Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] (275*)
> > The neat thing about having a mailserver that delivers into /afs
> > is that you can have more than one.
> What about locking? I tested the locking and found that I could
> corrupt files. That's why our rotary has NFS on the backside for
> mailboxes.
Clearly, the delivery processes need to employ some kind of locking,
with each other as well as with mail consumers. That's one of the
attractive features about delivering mail by creating a new file in a
designated directory, the way the Andrew mail system works, and I
understand other systems can work similarly. You can choose the name of
the new file so as not to collide with concurrent deliveries. AFS will
work fine in such an environment.
ObDFS: DFS would work fine for this, too, without the uncacheing that
NFS does for files with locking. If you wanted to locally-mount the
mail spool and get to it via the local path, that too would work.
