On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Christian Gregoire wrote:
> I'd like to share the same spool directory between several instances
> of Exim running on different hosts. The sharing file system would be
> Lustre (www.lustre.org).
Investigate the localhost_number option.
> Is it possible by design ? Is there any Lustre specificity I should
> check : locks, ... ?
I know nothing about Lustre. Exim expects fcntl() locking to work for
its spool files.
You may (will?) find that this is a bad idea if the system is at all
busy because of contention for the directory. Exim is disk-limited. By
reducing the disk bandwidth for the several instances you are just
making that worse.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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