We have been using for 5 years Cyrus imapd technology (we are now actually running
MessagingDirect imap server) in a Digital/Compaq Tru64/TruCluster configuration. Tru64
provides a journaling filesystem (called Advfs). We have been very successful with
this config.
Michel
--On mardi 12 décembre 2000 10:56 -0800 Rainer Enders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Since nfs is not recommended to use what is the
> best solution to setup a cluster solution for a cyrus
> mailserver. I'm thinking of setting up two servers
> that talk to the same ufs mounted filesystem.
>
> One issue is certainly that the OS filesystem shall
> be a journaling file system since it would take too
> long to fsck a big disk partition. Or you would use
> a commercial product like Veritas that provides its
> own filesystem, with Solaris for example. But that
> is an expensive solution.
>
> I'm wondering what solutions are people using to
> implement a fault-tolerant system.
>
> Rainer.
>
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