On 4.2.2010, at 4.13, Frank Cusack wrote: > On February 4, 2010 1:41:52 AM +0200 Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: >> On 2.2.2010, at 22.06, Per-Erik Persson wrote: >> >>> Scrolling thru the archives gives me a hint that there might be troubles >>> with AFS together with dovecot and maildir especially the LDA Is this >>> still an issue or should I prepare for spending time to solve it? If >>> someone successfully got it to work in a small or large scale >>> environment I would be happy to know about it. >> >> Problems are probably similar to NFS. The only sure way to avoid issues >> is to make sure that only a single server accesses user's mails at the >> same time. > > Unlike NFS, AFS has strong consistency. So that shouldn't be a problem.
If it acts just like a local filesystem, then it doesn't have any problems with Dovecot. But that guarantee usually makes the performance worse, so I would have thought it had less strong guarantees. Anyway, I don't know almost anything about AFS.
