From: Alex Pilosov (no email)
Date: Fri Dec 07 2001 - 12:56:12 EST
Read up on GFS. (www.globalfilesystem.org)
It provides local semantics over a shared-data storage. Whether it works
good enough with cyrus is another question. People constantly ask that
question, but I haven't had a straight answer yet.
-alex
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> It is cheaper to buy another PC than to buy another CPU and add the
> CPU to your existing PC, so I would like to have two Cyrus IMAPD
> servers that mirror each other. Is this possible? Is the "Cyrus
> murder" related to this? From what I remember, it was only a
> front-end to multiple but separate servers, but I didn't really
> install and use it so I may be wrong.
>
> It is also better from a fail-over point of view, I want my mail
> server completely mirrored in two different physical locations. Right
> now, if my IMAP server crashes, I lose. Receiving mail is not a
> problem, sendmail queues them up fine and I can have backup-MX's, but
> I can't read my mail until the server is up.
>
> I'm thinking about a daemon that synchronizes the /var/spool/imap
> directory tree between machines, either with cooperation with Cyrus
> IMAPD or not. You probably don't need to hook into Cyrus IMAPD, but
> perhaps the performance can be increased if you do. It feels like a
> weekend hack, which is about the amount of time I have for it. :-)
>
>
|
|
|