On 11/15/2010 04:57 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just read this one on the dovecot web:
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> FUSE / GlusterFS
>
> FUSE caches dentries and file attributes internally. If you're using multiple
> GlusterFS clients to access the same mailboxes, you're going to have problems.
> Worst of these problems can be avoided by using NFS cache flushes, which just
> happen to work with FUSE as well:
>
> mail_nfs_index = yes
> mail_nfs_storage = yes
>
> These probably don't work perfectly.
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>
> Can someone comment on that? Does anybody use glusterfs as a storage for
> mailboxes/mailfolders ?
>
Stephan -
Dovecot has been a challenge in the past. We don't specifically test
with it here, if you are interested in using it with Gluster I would
suggest testing with 3.1.1, and always keep the index files local, that
makes a big difference.
Thanks,
Craig
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Craig Carl
Senior Systems Engineer
Gluster
