Re: control files on an NFS share?

2000-11-21 Thread Sean Reifschneider
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:04:31PM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote: I am primarily concerned about files like 'rcpthosts'. They are read on every invocation of qmail-smtpd. Am I going to be looking at significant overhead from reading a file like that over NFS? Not if you turn the NFS caching

Re: control files on an NFS share?

2000-11-21 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 05:10:06PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:04:31PM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote: I am primarily concerned about files like 'rcpthosts'. They are read on every invocation of qmail-smtpd. Am I going to be looking at significant overhead from

control files on an NFS share?

2000-11-16 Thread Ben Beuchler
Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am now, in fact) but am wondering about the control files. It seems that at least SOME of them should be safe to share over NFS. Any thoughts or

Re: control files on an NFS share?

2000-11-16 Thread markd
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 05:40:27PM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote: Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am now, in fact) but am wondering about the control files. It seems that Ouch. You will, at

Re: control files on an NFS share?

2000-11-16 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 02:49:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 05:40:27PM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote: Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am now, in fact) but am

Re: control files on an NFS share?

2000-11-16 Thread Scott Gifford
Ben Beuchler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Our one qmail/vpopmail server is about to become a node in a load balanced pool of mail servers. I plan to mount the queue via NFS (I am now, in fact) but am wondering about the control files. It seems that at least SOME of them should be safe to