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On Fri, 25 May 2001, Shain Miley wrote:
NFS will do the trick but you will have locking problems if you use mbox
format e-mail. You *must* use MailDir instead of mbox to avoid the
locking issues.
You can also use GFS (www.globalfilesystem.org) which has a fault tolerant
shared disk solution.
-Matt
> Hi,
> I am new to the list and I was wondering if someone could either provide
> a link or some details about the maturity of LVS and the available
> 'shared disk' options. I am planning on setting up an LVS IMAP cluster
> and I am trying to figure out if I should use NFS or if a better option
> is available. I read some posts that talk about file locking problems
> with NFS that might cause mailbox corruption. This cluster will support
> 500-700 users. Do you think NFS will do the trick or is there a better
> (faster, journaling) file system out there that will work in a
> production environment? Thanks in advance?
> Shain
>
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