Re: MIX and NFS

On 10/ 1/13 08:49 PM, Andrew Daviel wrote:
>
> We are using UW imapd 2007 with MIX format mailboxes.
> Our storage expert would really like to use an NFS-mounted volume on a
> native ZFS appliance, saying it's much better for snapshots and 
> block-oriented backups than iSCSI.
>
> Given that we are only trying to support one flavour of Unix (Linux), 
> and possibly using NFS4 on Centos6/Linux 2.6, is there still a problem 
> with
> NFS, if the only processes opening mailboxes are using c-client 
> libraries (dmail, imapd, mailutin, alpine) ?

We had some users with NFS-mounted mailboxes (~/Mail) and MIX format.
Every once in a while there were some corrupted folders even though the 
only access was through one imapd server.
We never got corrupted folders on local storage.

If you are planning to change storage, maybe it is also time to consider 
switching to another server.
We recently moved to dovecot with mdbox format, which is similar to 
Mark's MIX format (but not compatible).


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