Ray Jackson wrote:
>
> Apologies from starting a new thread - my last one kinda died :(
> I've read differing opinions on this issue... Can I have a quick 'yes'
> or 'no' answer - is it safe to have a dedicated mount point for a mail
> spool per server over NFS (we use a NetApp FAS270's) using Exim 4.34?
> Will it be safe for NFS locking etc.?
Seperate dirs per server, no problems, as locking issues only come into
play when more than one service/server/app is trying to access a file
simultaniously. The NetApp products however help in managing this, and
do a very good job of it. Someone else had mentioned moving to maildir
over mbox, there is also mbx, and of course, this is a matter of what
you currently have, and how well you trust the NFS locking issues on your
OS. As to too the locking issues that were 'patched', this has more to do
with the systems you use, Linux has major problems with NFS and locking,
even today, Sun/HP/AIX/SGI/etc. support NFS much better.
Now, to answer the question of "will it work" take a look at this thread
from several years ago, back when I was a exim/linux newbie :P
http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20020513/038775.html
> I am more than happy with NFS performance/reliability with our NetApp
> and I trust the NetApp filer more than I trust local SCSI disks
> (mirrored or not!). In 5 years we have never had a NetApp filer fail on
> us...
NetApp designes its products for this type of thing ;)
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