Mercurial > dovecot > original-hg > dovecot-1.2
changeset 1395:b7fa9a51611b HEAD
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author | Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> |
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date | Sun, 27 Apr 2003 04:05:15 +0300 |
parents | 059f13d577bb |
children | 47d79a08aebd |
files | doc/nfs.txt |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/nfs.txt Sun Apr 27 03:59:43 2003 +0300 +++ b/doc/nfs.txt Sun Apr 27 04:05:15 2003 +0300 @@ -1,22 +1,19 @@ -Indexe files aren't really NFS safe, and they likely won't be made. You can -access the actual mailboxes via NFS, but place the indexes into local hard -disk (see mail-storage.txt). +Index files aren't NFS safe, and they likely won't be made. You can access +the actual mailboxes via NFS, but place the indexes into local hard disk +(see mail-storage.txt). - .customflags and .subscriptions files require fcntl() locking currently. Many NFS servers don't support it, at least without a separate lockd - daemon. I'll add optional support for .lock files later. + daemon. These will be fixed later to be NFS-safe by default. - - .lock files currently rely on O_EXCL which may not work with all NFS - servers + - .lock files currently rely on O_EXCL which doesn't work with NFSv2 + servers. Also Linux's NFSv3 client still doesn't work with this either. + This will be fixed later to use temporary files and link(). - gethostname() must return different name for each IMAP server accessing a user's mailboxes - - Clocks should be somewhat synchronized: - - maildir: One minute difference is enough to have a small chance of - new mail to get temporarily lost until more mail arrives. - - One hour is enough to create a problem when two imap servers try to - open the same mailbox at the same time. + - Clocks should be synchronized or things can start to fail. If you _really_ wish to try using indexes via NFS: