Re: NFS -- mailboxes in cyrus imap...

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

> I heard/saw from somewhere that "the mailbox in cyrus imap server cannot
> be in a NFS filesystem, it only can be in local filesystem".
> 
> Is this true? can somebody give me a reference pointer.

Yes. Cyrus requires rename() be an atomic operation. rename() is not
atomic on NFS filesystems.

See the mailing list archives for the many times this has been discussed
to death.

--lyndon