On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:40:52AM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Kostas Zorbadelos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello. > > I can see that the vacation action in sieve uses gdbm files. In our > > setup we have NFS mounted mailboxes. Is it safe to use gdbm over NFS? > > In addition to what Alain said I'd like to emphasize that it uses not > only GDBM. In fact, vacation uses whatever DBM system mailutils is > configured with (old DBM, NDBM, Berkeley DB, or GDBM). So the exact > answer depends on the underlying implementation. As far as I know, > at least Berkeley and GDBM are reputedly safe to use over NFS. >
Your answer is very helpful. As I can see in the sources, we can only use an old version of Berkeley DB (v2). I am currently looking between gdbm and Berkley DB. If I go for the latter (for performance reasons), I will send patches for v4.3 support. Thanks, Kostas > Regards, > Sergey > -- Kostas Zorbadelos Systems Designer/Developer, Otenet SA [EMAIL PROTECTED] contact: kzorba (at) otenet.gr Out there in the darkness, out there in the night out there in the starlight, one soul burns brighter than a thousand suns. _______________________________________________ Bug-mailutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mailutils
