May 9, 2000
3:46 p.m.
One of the more reasonable and understandable benefits of using filesystem locking is when the locks are placed in a shared filesystem - a filesystem that is used by multiple machines running Mailman. Is this a common occurrence?
Hi Dan,
Many people split the Web and email portions of Mailman up, running each on its own server. That's what I do at mallorn.com, and here at NCSA we're taking it a step further with four mail servers and three Web servers (round-robined) all providing the same functionality. Of course, the glue that holds it all together is the filesystem (we tried doing Mailman in AFS, but it was a pain getting our patches to work on new versions... We ended up having to settle for (ick) NFS).
Chris