--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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