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 wondering about the control files. It seems that
>
> Ouch. You will, at some stage, lose mail this way. Is it actually working?
I mis-spoke. The queue is, of course, local. The spool is on the NFS
share. I slipped into "boss speak" there for a second. My boss for
some reason persists in referring to the spool as the queue...
> > at least SOME of them should be safe to share over NFS. Any thoughts or
> > recommendations?
>
> Anything but queue is probably ok.
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?
Ben
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