Dave Pooser wrote: > >Dave> At $DAYJOB we export the spam folder (and a ham folder for FPs) > >Dave> via NFS and mount them on the frontline SA servers for sa-learn. > > > >Doesn't that smell of locking issues? > > To be honest, I'd just assumed that NFS wouldn't do any locking on a > read-only export.
If you are using Maildir format then there are no locks. That makes Maildir format the format of choice for use over NFS. Here is a reference. http://www.postfix.org/NFS_README.html The maildir format uses one file per message and needs no file locking support in Postfix or in other mail software. > ...Great, now I'm paranoid. Thanks, Ian. ;-) I guess I can go back and > force the exports to ne NFS3 instead of NFS4 so I can explicitly state the > nolocks option.... Paranoia is good. But using Maildir format would also be okay too. Bob
