Re: [not][exim] Running exim on a cluster-filesystem

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Patrick von der Hagen
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [not][exim] Running exim on a cluster-filesystem
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Patrick von der Hagen wrote:

> I'm quite happy that no one considers running several exim-server with a
> shared filesystem to be a major problem,


I'd call it "ambitious". Glad someone else is blazing the trail.

> but currently I stopped optimizing exim and try to run an IMAP-server on
> the same filesystem.
> As I feared, that task proves to be much more difficult. Usually we are
> running Cyrus, but it doesn't like mmap with the special file-system. :-(


I don't know if Dovecot relies on mmap, but like Cyrus it maintaines
indexes of mailboxes so is more efficient than UW IMAP or Courier.

Tony.
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