Re: NFS Diskless Boot

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:

>   True.  But Qmail doesn't really do anything overly strange with files AFAIK
> and it should work the same over NFS as over local disks.  I think that the
> issue is that the Qmail problem is a symptom of larger problems with NFS.

Qmail does two strange things in it's mail spool: it uses the file's
inode number as a unique identification, and it uses a FIFO to let
qmail-send know to check the queue.  The latter requires a local file
system, and the former requires local Unix filesystem semantics.

It's very careful delivering to maildirs to work with NFS.

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