On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Richard Roderick wrote:
> I'm curious about which parts of Qmail should not be mounted via NFS.
The queue.
> I am using Maildir
> I am using multiple mail servers to work on the same data behind a serveriron.
>
> Can the multiple servers share a queue directory?
No. You don't want to do this for two reasons:
1) reliability: the queue doesn't have many of the same protections a
Maildir filestore has. If you NFS mounted the queue, you would
be *very* likely to corrupt or destroy messages transiting it.
2) performance: the queue is by far the most I/O intensive part of qmail's
architecture. You want to keep that as 'close' to the rest of the
system as you can. A fast RAID or even a JBOD should work ok.
jms
> What about the entire /var/qmail direcotory?
