Daniel /me shivers at the thought of my (easily) 500+ new messages a day
Daniel and hundreds of thousands of messages being stored one file for each
Daniel message...
Works OK for us (and a number of even larger ISPs using Maildirs).
Though we use NetApps for the file storage and they have a
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Alan Judge wrote:
Daniel /me shivers at the thought of my (easily) 500+ new messages a day
Daniel and hundreds of thousands of messages being stored one file for each
Daniel message...
Works OK for us (and a number of even larger ISPs using Maildirs).
Though we use
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 10:03:07AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
If so you're breaking the cardinal rule of NFS: Never serve mail spools
via NFS.
...unless you're using the Maildir mailbox format and delivery protocol:
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
--
Jos Backus
As Daniel C. Sobral wrote ...
Jos Backus wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 10:03:07AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
If so you're breaking the cardinal rule of NFS: Never serve mail spools
via NFS.
...unless you're using the Maildir mailbox format and delivery protocol:
/me shivers at the thought of my (easily) 500+ new messages a day
and hundreds of thousands of messages being stored one file for each
message...
It's been done. It's called MS Exchange.
You don't have to use vile language in public :-)
MH has been storing mail in
According to Wilko Bulte:
It's been done. It's called MS Exchange.
AFAIK, it is the opposite. M-Sexchange use one unique database for all
mailboxes, making recovery of a lost message an "interesting" challenge. It is
worse than the mbox format...
--
Ollivier ROBERT -=-
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, David E. Cross wrote:
I am noticing a large number of pine (and only pine) procs stuck in disk-wait.
All of the are in the WCHAN "vmpfw". Any ideas what this may mean?
Is the mail spool pine accessing on this NFS volume, or just the binary?
If so you're breaking the
:On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, David E. Cross wrote:
:
: I am noticing a large number of pine (and only pine) procs stuck in disk-wait.
: All of the are in the WCHAN "vmpfw". Any ideas what this may mean?
:
:Is the mail spool pine accessing on this NFS volume, or just the binary?
:
:If so you're breaking
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Doug White wrote:
:If so you're breaking the cardinal rule of NFS: Never serve mail spools
:via NFS.
Correction: Never mount mail splls via NFS on platforms without NFS
locking.
I mount mail spools via NFS all the time in SunOS, Solaris, and Irix.
Have been for years.
I am noticing a large number of pine (and only pine) procs stuck in
disk-wait. All of the are in the WCHAN "vmpfw". Any ideas what
this may mean?
Is the mail spool pine accessing on this NFS volume, or just the
binary?
If so you're breaking the cardinal rule of NFS: Never serve mail
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Mike Walker wrote:
I am noticing a large number of pine (and only pine) procs stuck in
disk-wait. All of the are in the WCHAN "vmpfw". Any ideas what
this may mean?
Is the mail spool pine accessing on this NFS volume, or just the
binary?
If so you're
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Mike Walker wrote:
If so you're breaking the cardinal rule of NFS: Never serve mail
spools via NFS.
Why is this a cardinal rule?
FreeBSD doesn't support locking over NFS, so you will get corruption of
mailboxes if there are attempts at concurrent access of the mail
"Louis A. Mamakos" wrote:
You don't have to use vile language in public :-)
MH has been storing mail in it's folders like this for years/decades. While
it might be a little hard on the file system, it works great for the user.
Works great? Seriously, how long does it take to open a
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
"Louis A. Mamakos" wrote:
You don't have to use vile language in public :-)
MH has been storing mail in it's folders like this for years/decades. While
it might be a little hard on the file system, it works great for the user.
Works
: :
:
: Which FreeBSD release is being used here? What kind of NFS mount is
: being used (localhost mount?)
:
:Ok, I have some additional details, as I was able to mostly resolve the issue.
:
:Yes, mail is nfs exported, but that does not appear to be the issue in this
:case. pine is
15 matches
Mail list logo
