> 2005/9/30, Simon Matter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Helo. >> > >> > I was asked to prepere hardware architecture to Cyrus based >> > e-mail system for large number of accounts. >> > >> > What i want to propose is. >> > >> > 4 IBM xSeries 346 for mailbox servers. >> > EMC CX700 as storeage. >> > >> > But i dont know how te resolve problem of mountig volumes from EMC. >> > >> > I want to do this for this way: >> > >> > Every server in normal way is mounting from EMC one volume on wich are >> > binaries and mailboxes for this instance. When this server crash, i >> > would like to remount this volume on the one from 3 remaining servers, >> > and there run this instance. >> > >> > On SUN hardware i was using Veritas VM for such cluster operation. >> > Now on x86 i've no idea. Veritas is not good for me, because as i >> know, >> > he doesn't work on Debian or FreeBSD systems which i plan to use. >> > >> > Have you got any idea ? which help me ;-) >> >> Just some ideas: >> >> For Linux there are some cluster FS like >> GFS (RedHat, GPL) >> GPFS (IBM) >> OCFS2 (Oracle, GPL) >> Veritas (without support on certain distr.) >> CXFS (SGI) >> I know there are more, however, I haven't used any of them. >> > > Thanks. For future : I want to use EMC because of price. My emplyer > has big price reduction. > All servers will be conected through Brocade FC switches. > I don't want to mount one LUN to few servers. But i'm need to > be able to mount this LUN only once but every server need to by able > to mount this. I'll read everything you propose and then i'll write sth. > I hope you understand.
If I correctly understand you I don't think you need any of the above shared filesystem. Since every FS is only mounted once, there is no need for a special fs. Without knowing exactly I expect you can do all you need with http://www.linux-ha.org/. Simon ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
