Doug McClure wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any experience (real world) with the speed/reliability of
> IRIX NFS? We're looking at distributed ring of POP3/SMTP servers with a
> single NFS server (right now) to hold all users' mail and directly accept
> mail as the primary MX and a secondary MX to back it up. The POP3/SMTP
> servers - two for now - wound check users mail via NFS and do no local
> delivery.
One word comes to mind when I hear "NFS" and "mail" in the same
breath... Ick.
I admit I do not have any experience with qmail specifically in
this area, or even any with IRIX in this area (my IRIX
experience lies elsewhere), but the one time I was at a site
that delivered mail into an NFS mounted spool things were ugly.
Why do you want to use NFS? Why do you want to distribute
things?
The real question here is: What problem are you trying to
solve with this?
Whatever problem it is, I _doubt_ that NFS is the answer,
regardless of both the platform (e.g., IRIX) and the MTA (e.g.,
qmail).
Cheers,
David
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