--On Monday, November 20, 2000 11:34:15 AM +1100 Tristan Ball
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Note: this is not something I have tried, or even wish to, as my largest
> cyrus email server handles 250 users at the moment, easily handled by a
> Sun E450. :-)
>
> I've seen the messages poo-pooing using NFS for cyrus, and the reasons
> make sense, my question is would another shared filesystem, like
> samba/smb/smbfs under linux be acceptable, or would I have I be better
> off using a proper distributed filesystem like coda?
Coda or AFS don't have the proper semantics for Cyrus, either. (Namely,
both of them don't propogate changes to files until a close(), and Cyrus
depends on changes to a file being immediately seen by other imap
processes.)
To make Cyrus work properly (and efficiently) with distributed filesystems,
a good amount of work (and thought) needs to be done. MessagingDirect's
IMAP server (based on Cyrus a long time ago) has done this work, and it's
radically different from Cyrus at this point.
Larry
