Hi, thanks for your quick feedback. The option is exactly what I was looking for; I haven't noticed it because I'm using cyrus 2.2 at the moment. Thanks, Ingo Steuwer Am Freitag, 20. November 2009 schrieb Marc Patermann: > Hi, > > Ingo Steuwer schrieb: > > I'm in building a test-environment where I'd like to setup my cyrus mail > > spoll (/var/spool/cyrus/mail) on a NFS filesystem. I know that locking > > issues in NFSv3 prevent a clean mail delivery with cyrus and want to give > > NFSv4 a try. > > > > My suspect from older tests was, that the handling of cyrus.index and > > other "database"-files (cyrus.cache, cyrus.header, cyrus.squat) isn't > > possible on NFSv3. Beside changing the NFS version, I thougt of an option > > where those files are stored on a different (non-NFS) partition. > > > > Does anybody know about a way to configure the path of those files? Or > > are there ways to move them after creation? > > check for metapartion in your imapd.conf man page: > > metapartition_files: <empty string> > Space-separated list of metadata files to be stored on a > metapartition rather than in the mailbox directory on a spool > partition. > Allowed values: header, index, cache, expunge, squat > metapartition-name: <none> > The pathname of the metadata partition name, corresponding to spool > partition partition-name. For any mailbox residing in a directory on > partition-name, the metadata files listed in metapartition_files will be > stored in a corresponding directory on metapartition-name. Note that not > every partition-name option is required to have a corresponding > metapartition-name option, so that you can selectively choose which > spool partitions will have separate metadata partitions. > > > Marc -- Ingo Steuwer Head of Professional Services Univention GmbH Linux for your business Mary-Somerville-Str.1 28359 Bremen Tel.: +49 421 22232-43 Fax : +49 421 22232-99 Mob : +49 173 2112971 steuwer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.univention.de Geschäftsführer: Peter H. Ganten HRB 20755 Amtsgericht Bremen Steuer-Nr.: 71-597-02876 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
