Justin McAleer wrote:
Daniel L. Miller wrote:
Justin McAleer wrote:
I have the source mail spools on NFS as well.
Just asking - not looking for a flame war. I had a miserable time
trying to get NFS working with just my simple LAN - I've had much
better results via Samba with either SMBFS or CIFS. Off-topic - but
can I ask why you're using NFS?
Going back to my first mail, the long and short of it is:
"However, we plan to run a cluster of these servers anyway, where we
will keep domains/accounts going to a particular server but fail over
to one of the others in case of an outage."
We have a new Netapp, and have been running our email off NFS for
years without problems. To be fair, we haven't needed shared storage
before, but we spent a lot of money on reliable storage, so there the
data stayed. What sort of problems have you run into? So far in my
dovecot testing I haven't had any issues either.
I had issues just trying to get it to work at all. Either portmap
wouldn't start, wouldn't share, wouldn't talk - something. Or I'd get
it to work, and then my joke of a wiring closet would get bumped and the
clients would freeze when their connection was interrupted. That last
was actually one of my biggest problems (admittedly not an NFS fault -
but an NFS overreaction). When the wires were repaired NFS settled down
- but I had far more success with Samba, including automatically
restoring broken connections without having the clients re-mount and/or
re-boot.
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Daniel
