[OpenAFS] Mail delivery into OpenAFS

Nathan Ward nward@esphion.com
Mon, 07 Jul 2003 13:28:36 +1200


On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 16:41:11 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

> Nathan Ward <nward@esphion.com> writes:
>
>> Is anyone doing this? I assume so..
>
> It's considered a really bad idea by pretty much everyone I know who's 
> run
> AFS for a long time to try to deliver mail into AFS.  The performance
> sucks, among other problems.

Well I just did a very simple test using "postal".
It was doing ~950 deliveries per minute and then started bouncing random 
mail with "no mailbox".
This is more than enough speed for my meer ~40 messages per minute.

What other problems do you speak of?