On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 09:31:23AM -0400, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> 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.
That is not the point. The queue is just as protected as Maildir is. The
queue also has some properties that don't work over NFS.
> 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.
True.
Greetz, Peter
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