[RETRANSMIT] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Debate about
Mailman on BytesForAll
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Thu Aug 26 22:46:27 CEST 2004
At 4:10 PM -0400 2004-08-26, Dale Newfield wrote:
> The biggest problem with BerkeleyDB is that it REQUIRES that the file
> system support memory mapping the files. This means that you cannot
> guarantee correctness if these files are located on an NFS mount.
True enough. That's a known issue with BerkeleyDB.
But why would you be putting any of this stuff on NFS anyway?
And how would you deal with all the file locking issues? And
cross-platform issues? I've been doing NFS for a very long time, and
I have yet to see a mail-related environment where NFS is a good
choice or works well. Given the sorts of things we're talking about
doing, I can't imagine that NFS could possibly be a good solution.
--
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