Postfix+Dovecot over NFS: Need good info
toniintc
I have searched for the better part of a couple hours for a concrete
answer on this to no avail. There seems to be a lot of conflicting
info.
I have a RHEL 4.5 box running Postfix+Dovecot+MySQL. I have about
about 3200 accounts in 1200 virtual domains and maildir spools. There
is an average of 50-60 emails/minute received during peak periods, and
as a company we are growing at a rate of about 20%/year.
I would like to put an identical RHEL box running Postfix+Dovecot+MySQL
+SquirrelMail into operation, DNS round robin'd. I would like to
mount my spool directories on an NFS share located on a third RHEL
server with a screaming fast RAID10 volume.
I have read posts regarding problems with NFS locking, but am not
certain whether it applies only to mailbox spools or both mailbox and
maildir. I have read of ways of possibly avoiding locking issues by
using fcntl() locks. I have read posts saying it's good, it's bad,
etc.
So....is this possible, good idea, bad idea? Is there a definitively
better way to do this with something other than NFS? Will I run into
any Dovecot issues (I know, wrong list, but...)?
Obviously I'm not doing anything that hasn't been done already, but
Google isn't giving me info I can feel sure of. I would appreciate
any comments. Thanks!
Toni