On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Daniel Pittman <[email protected]> wrote:
> My fallback would be NFS shared ZFS in the domU - much cheaper because
> you only have one ARC, set of checksums, etc, to manage, but with the
> added bonus of NFS between the domU and dom0.  Fun times.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig

The above page says "Dovecot can also use dnotify, inotify and kqueue to find 
out immediately when changes occur" in regard to the IMAP "IDLE" command 
(waiting for notification of new mail).  So it seems that using NFS is going 
to incur extra overhead for polling (which probably isn't that great) as well 
as delaying the notification of new mail.  This probably doesn't matter much 
as it seems unlikely that there is a reasonable demand by a user for how soon 
they should be notified which would also involve frequent enough polling to 
cause significant load.

But it is another reason for not using NFS.

It's really a pity that the Xen DomU kernel doesn't have it's own filesystem 
driver which proxies access to the Dom0.  Then things like Inotify would just 
work.

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