--On mercredi 15 novembre 2000 19:29 +0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anybody got Cyrus IMAP working with an NFS mounted Network Appliance
> Filer successfully. We are using Cyrus under Linux. The mailboxes file
> is stored on the NetApp and appears to go offline. The only solution is
> to remount the NFS device. Is this a Cyrus or an NFS problem. And are
> there any other known issues using Cyrus with NFS.
>
> Regards
> Pat Fenton
>
Look at the mailing list archives. There has been a lot of discussion about
that. The point is : with NFS, you'll certainly experiment intermittent
problems (mailbox corruption, ...) because some file operations cannot be
made atomic on NFS and because of some locking problems.
Michel
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