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Re: [Gluster-devel] distributed locking
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Székelyi Szabolcs |
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Re: [Gluster-devel] distributed locking |
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Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:38:18 +0100 |
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Brian Taber wrote:
> I have been running Dovecot and Postfix with a 2 brick setup and posix
> locking enabled on each brick for a while with no problems. This is a
> Maildir setup... Dovecot is setup to use fcntl for locking.... remember
> that gluster does not support flock as fuse does not support it...
Yes, I'm aware of this. But in your place, I would stop doing this until
the GlusterFS QA test runs successfully. If it doesn't, then not losing
data with such a setup is just a matter of luck. And for this storage
application, I can't accept the risk.
>> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Székelyi Szabolcs wrote:
>>
>>> Everything works fine as long as I don't introduce locking, which is
>>> essential if one wishes to use the storage eg. as a backend for a mail
>>> server.
>> I'm sorry that I cannot answer your question, but do you have a choice in
>> what mail server to use? Those that use the Maildir format (Like for
>> example Postfix together with Courier-IMAP) does not need locking.
- [Gluster-devel] distributed locking, Székelyi Szabolcs, 2007/11/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] distributed locking, Jerker Nyberg, 2007/11/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] distributed locking, Brian Taber, 2007/11/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] distributed locking, Kevan Benson, 2007/11/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] distributed locking,
Székelyi Szabolcs <=
- Re: [Gluster-devel] distributed locking, Brian Taber, 2007/11/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] distributed locking, Székelyi Szabolcs, 2007/11/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] distributed locking, Brian Taber, 2007/11/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] distributed locking, Brian Taber, 2007/11/30
- Re: [Gluster-devel] distributed locking, Székelyi Szabolcs, 2007/11/30
Re: [Gluster-devel] distributed locking, Székelyi Szabolcs, 2007/11/30