Brian Taber wrote: > I have been running Dovecot and Postfix with a 2 brick setup and posix > locking enabled on each brick for a while with no problems. This is a > Maildir setup... Dovecot is setup to use fcntl for locking.... remember > that gluster does not support flock as fuse does not support it... Yes, I'm aware of this. But in your place, I would stop doing this until the GlusterFS QA test runs successfully. If it doesn't, then not losing data with such a setup is just a matter of luck. And for this storage application, I can't accept the risk. >> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Székelyi Szabolcs wrote: >> >>> Everything works fine as long as I don't introduce locking, which is >>> essential if one wishes to use the storage eg. as a backend for a mail >>> server. >> I'm sorry that I cannot answer your question, but do you have a choice in >> what mail server to use? Those that use the Maildir format (Like for >> example Postfix together with Courier-IMAP) does not need locking.
