[Mailman-Developers] Mailman on a cluster

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:32 PM +0300 2006-06-07, Dale Newfield wrote:

>  Ian Eiloart wrote:
>>  I'm looking at running Mailman on a cluster of servers, sharing a single
>>  disk with Apple XSan.
>
>  Barry, none of the bdb stuff you were working on is in the 2.1 tree, is
>  it?  bdb does not guarantee acid properties over networked file systems...

	My understanding is that Berkeley db doesn't work at all on NFS, 
because it uses mmap to handle access to the database files, and mmap 
on NFS is an undefined operation.  This is the same problem that 
people wanting to use Cyrus on NFS face, for the same reason -- 
Berkely db on NFS doesn't work.

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