From: Timo Sirainen Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 01:05:15 +0000 (+0300) Subject: updated X-Git-Tag: 1.1.alpha1~4711 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=67aa2df1c7700b244421c2cce0494d9105ac9fd0;p=thirdparty%2Fdovecot%2Fcore.git updated --HG-- branch : HEAD --- diff --git a/doc/nfs.txt b/doc/nfs.txt index 79f73e72f5..2ef24f87cf 100644 --- a/doc/nfs.txt +++ b/doc/nfs.txt @@ -1,22 +1,19 @@ -Indexe files aren't really NFS safe, and they likely won't be made. You can -access the actual mailboxes via NFS, but place the indexes into local hard -disk (see mail-storage.txt). +Index files aren't NFS safe, and they likely won't be made. You can access +the actual mailboxes via NFS, but place the indexes into local hard disk +(see mail-storage.txt). - .customflags and .subscriptions files require fcntl() locking currently. Many NFS servers don't support it, at least without a separate lockd - daemon. I'll add optional support for .lock files later. + daemon. These will be fixed later to be NFS-safe by default. - - .lock files currently rely on O_EXCL which may not work with all NFS - servers + - .lock files currently rely on O_EXCL which doesn't work with NFSv2 + servers. Also Linux's NFSv3 client still doesn't work with this either. + This will be fixed later to use temporary files and link(). - gethostname() must return different name for each IMAP server accessing a user's mailboxes - - Clocks should be somewhat synchronized: - - maildir: One minute difference is enough to have a small chance of - new mail to get temporarily lost until more mail arrives. - - One hour is enough to create a problem when two imap servers try to - open the same mailbox at the same time. + - Clocks should be synchronized or things can start to fail. If you _really_ wish to try using indexes via NFS: