[OpenAFS] Mail delivery into OpenAFS

[Russ Allbery]

Nathan Ward <nward@esphion.com> writes:

> 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.

Is this under a typical read load, or with a completely quiescent cell?

> What other problems do you speak of?

Authentication tends to be a pain.  Handling of soft errors and hard
errors leaves something to be desired.  Locking is crap, and maildir isn't
going to work because maildir requires cross-directory hard links which
are flatly unsupported in AFS.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>