I just ran lock tests I found in the QA section on 2 servers at the same time with 500 threads each, they all ran successfully. I am currently running the TLA version of gluster, I don't know if that makes a difference... > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >
