Re: configuration option for db-files in a different path than mailboxes?

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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



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