It has always been my understanding that Cyrus isn't supported over NFS.
Clearly, getting locking working for the scenario of two machines
running Cyrus sharing /var/imap is Very Hard. However, what if I only
want to use _one_ instance of Cyrus, with failover (essentially, one Sun
sat in front of
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Ian G Batten wrote:
Sun if the first goes bang). Are there issues with Cyrus over NFS if
the running copy of Cyrus has an assurance that it's the only writer?
Locking *must* work at all times (in your case, it needs not be
network-aware, but still it needs to work for the
For what it's worth, I have a configuration that works this way with a
NetApp. We've got a content switch in front of the two servers that
does automatic failover if the primary box goes down, and so far it's
worked flawlessly.
I turned off all the database checkpointing and pruning on the
