Mark Newton wrote: > In any case, what I'm trying to end up with is a system built around a > large filestore (suitably RAIDed for reliability) with multiple front-end > systems (for scalability). > > I've noticed in the Cyrus documentation that NFS is not an option for > doing this kind of thing, so I'm left wondering if there's some other way > to do it.
Coupla thing re: Cyrus. One method for scaling under Cyrus is to use an special front end to IMAP, of which a couple leap to mind - The Murder IMAP Aggregator at http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ag.html, or Perdition, the mail retrieval proxy at http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/ . Not that I've (had to) use either of these products, just that I'm aware of them. The other thing is that CMU still run their campus wide Cyrus installation on one machine, the specs of which escape me (but supports something like 100K users under Solaris? Ahh, here it is, see [1]). -- Regards, Daryl Tester, Software Wrangler and Bit Herder, IOCANE Pty. Ltd. "Now is the Winter of our Discount Tent." -- The Red Green Show [1] http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&searchterm=200%2C000&msg=3698
