From: Ralf Hildebrandt (no email)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 05:08:57 EDT
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:03:07AM -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
> If each map is for a specific domain, why search them all? Why not just
> search the one map for that domain, using only the username part as the
> key, and stop there?
Because all data could be in all maps. What you want would probably an
LDAP server (search only in the ou=domain or something like that)
> load balancing. I want to be able to easily and quickly move a group of
> domains from one server to another one.
Simply change what points to in your map.
> As a result of this, these maps would have only the user part as the
> key, so even if you wanted to search all the maps for some user at domain,
> you can't actually carry out a reasonable search. If you searching
> for , and there exists an entry for "foo" in the map
> for example.org, is that considered a match?
man 5 virtual
(yes)
> | This will not work because of "chroot" and security issues. Just drive
> | both the VDA and Postfix from a shared "userdb", MySQL or LDAP database.
>
> What directory will it be chroot-ed into?
$queue_directory
> With reiserfs, it is now more practical to use the filesystem as a database.
If you want to lose all data, yes. I get sick when I see the weekly
patches for various flaws. I don't let Reiser anywhere close to a
system which needs to be reliable.
> I haven't ruled out using a db file rebuilt periodically from other data.
> But I probably would go for cdb in that case.
Yup.
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