dovecot - Aug 2008 - NFS vs CIFS - and Dovecot

I've seen a number of posts discussing NFS based storage and issues with 
Dovecot.  When the term "NFS" is used - does this exclusively refer to
the Linux NFS network file system, or is it a generic reference to any 
network file system?  I don't recall seeing any posts referencing issues 
with CIFS or SMBFS - is this because no one is using it, or because it 
just works instead of fiddling with NFS?
-- 
Daniel

On Aug 12, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> I've seen a number of posts discussing NFS based storage and issues  
> with Dovecot.  When the term "NFS" is used - does this
exclusively
> refer to the Linux NFS network file system, or is it a generic  
> reference to any network file system?  I don't recall seeing any  
> posts referencing issues with CIFS or SMBFS - is this because no one  
> is using it, or because it just works instead of fiddling with NFS?
I've only tested NFS, but since similar workarounds work for FUSE it's  
likely that they also work for CIFS/SMBFS. But there are additional  
issues with them, like you probably can't use ':' character (needed
by
Maildir) and I don't know if hard links are supported. I wouldn't  
recommend using without heavy stress testing. :)

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