On Thu, 20 May 2004, Paul Dekkers wrote:
I hope this kind of functionality comes into cyrus once; I assume it is not there yet, I once asked this on the list before ;-) And maybe it shouldn't be too difficult, since there is already a synchronisation mechanism for NNTP in place, if I'm correct.
This is very hard -- if not impossible -- with only two machines, at the very least you'd need three in order to maintain a quorum of what the "real view" of the server is --
For example, think about what would happen if there was a network partition and two different messages were delivered to the split servers at the same time. It's not an easy problem to solve-- keeping a hot spare is definately the way to go.
-Rob
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