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Subject: Re: Distributed File Systems
From: Michel Jouvin <jouvin () lal ! in2p3 ! fr>
Date: 2002-10-21 17:24:05
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It has been discussed a lot in the past on this list, why you need a local
file system for Cyrus. With AFS, part of the pb is the performance : AFS
caching is not appriated for the kind of use Cyrus made of a filesystem
(almost no reuse, lots of update).
One of the other pb is the need for atomic delete/rename that is generally
not guaranteed in distributed filesystem.
Michel
--On lundi 21 octobre 2002 12:54 -0400 Dave McMurtrie <dgm+@pitt.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Josh Huber wrote:
>
>> Indeed, does someone have an answer for this question? Everyone seems
>> to be avoiding it :)
>>
>> Can Cyrus handle storing mailboxes to an AFS drive?
>
> IMAP developers can answer this more clearly if they choose to, but the
> first thought that comes to my mind is that I believe cyrus utilizes hard
> links in the mail store in some situations (mail copy?). AFS doesn't
> fully support hard links, so if cyrus does require a filesystem that
> supports hard links that could be a big problem.
>
> Other issues that aren't necessarily show-stoppers, but would make it
> impractical to use AFS for your mail-store:
>
> 1. It's not going to be a blazing fast performer if you use AFS for your
> mail store.
>
> 2. You have to deal with authorizing the cyrus server to write into AFS
> filespace, which means you either need to run it authenticated or set up
> IP acls on your mail store.
>
> Dave
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