[Dovecot] prevent dovecot from modifying maildirs

[Michael Grimm]

On 2013-08-09 11:44, Felix Rubio Dalmau wrote:

> Is there any possibility to ask dovecot to write nothing to disk,
> something like a "read only" state, without shutting it down? I have
> set up a ZFS+postfix+dovecot mail server, and I need both postfix
> (postsuper -h ALL) and dovecot (¿?) to stop modifying the disk to
> create the snapshot to be saved.
> 
> Does anybody has any idea on how to achieve this?

As mentioned before, that's done by ZFS. Just create a snapshot using
your ZFS functionality (zfs snapshot <name>).

Regards,
Michael