From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 20 20:43:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC4016A47D for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:43:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D4343D83 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:42:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (localhost.natserv.net [127.0.0.1]) by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A4ACB84B; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:42:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 35st-server.simplicato.com (static-71-249-233-130.nycmny.east.verizon.net [71.249.233.130]) by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 175F2B81D; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:42:46 -0400 (EDT) References: <20060620141528.GA5731@uk.tiscali.com> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Francisco Reyes To: Brian Candler Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:42:45 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: NFS automounting. Stable for mail servers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:43:02 -0000 Brian Candler writes: > That's true, but you'd want to be a bit careful with an automounter; you > don't want your MTA to create /mail-server1/u/s/username/Maildir on the > front-end's local disk if /mail-server1 was not mounted! The mail machines are only doing IMAP/POP clients. > What would you expect the front-end to do if a user whose mail is on > /mail-server1 connects, but /mail-server1 is down? That connection, for that one user, should freeze or fail. What I am looking for is to not affect users from /mail-server2 on the same mail client. > You could add a check to > the application code to check for this case. Using Courier. > myself. I've built clusters around Netapps and they are too reliable :-) Don't think one of those will fit our current budget ;-) > As for automount, I don't use that either, but I wouldn't expect much > problem if you were just auto-mounting /mail-server1, /mail-server2, > /mail-server3 and leaving them mounted. Another sys admin for another company told me he had issues with the amd built in.. but that was likely in 4.X. In addition there is a port too. I wonder which one is more reliable.