Re: NFS Diskless Boot
>> 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.
OK. Then I agree that Qmail's non-performance over NFS isn't a problem.
FIFO's should still work, but obviously inode numbers can't be used over NFS.
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