From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 18:19:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topsecret.net (unknown [216.19.133.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B113437B402 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:19:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from pacific.net128.101.101.10.in-addr.arpa by topsecret.net with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP5.R) for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:17:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:17:45 -0500 (EST) From: "[gill]" X-Sender: gill@pacific.int.topsecret.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: nfs question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Return-Path: gill@topsecret.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Let's say I have two machines home and mail on a private network inside a firewall. Home is where users log in and do stuff, mail is a mailserver running qmail. Both are serving NFS. Home serves /usr/home to the local subnet and mail serves /mail to the same. If I wanted to use qmail's super-keen maildir format -- which stores a user's mail in a ~/mail/ directory under each individual user's home -- and I wanted to take advantage of this big, fast drive mounted as /mail on the mail machine and I didn't want to fill up my /home drive (this will run IMAP and we're planning to use a lot of space for mail storage) ... what would be the best way to do this? We have come up with this potential solution for which I would like to solicit the opinions of the list and ask a question: So far we've decided that we could put a ln -s /mail/$USER in the skeletons and in each existing user's home directory. This would cause the following situation: qmail would process a message and look to write it to /home/$USER/mail and look at the NFS mounted /home directory of that user and accross the network see the link points back to /mail/$USER and eventually wind up writing the data to the local drive. Would each read/write go back and forth from mail to home and back? is there a better way to accomplish this? Thank you in advance for your comments, --gill -- This is my ~/.signature file. It is the digital equivalent of a bumpersticker. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message