Re: Cyrus crashed on redundant platform - need better availability?

2004-09-10 Thread Paul Dekkers
Jure PeÃÂar wrote: Although many on the list claim that this (having 2 boxes with 1 disk-array) is a nice way for redundancy I'm in doubt now if this is true. It still takes 30 mins before everything is back again! It seems to me that if there was a "live" version of cyrus available with a sync

Re: Cyrus crashed on redundant platform - need better availability?

2004-09-10 Thread Paul Dekkers
Hi, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: There are two machines for redundancy. If one fails, the other one should take over: mount the disks from the array, and move on. Right, works fine for us for the most part. Hasn't always been like that, but the most recent kernel updates by Red Hat have improved ma

Re: Cyrus crashed on redundant platform - need better availability?

2004-09-10 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
Hi, --On Freitag, 10. September 2004 13:24 Uhr +0200 Paul Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We're implementing a new mailplatform running on two dell 2650-servers (2 xeon cpu's with each 3 Ghz, HTT and 3Gb of memory) and with a disk array of 4 Tb connected with a adaptec 39160 scsi controller fo

Re: Cyrus crashed on redundant platform - need better availability?

2004-09-10 Thread Jure PeÃÂar
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:24:42 +0200 Paul Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although many on the list claim that this (having 2 boxes with 1 > disk-array) is a nice way for redundancy I'm in doubt now if this is > true. It still takes 30 mins before everything is back again! It seems > to me t

Cyrus crashed on redundant platform - need better availability?

2004-09-10 Thread Paul Dekkers
Hi, We're implementing a new mailplatform running on two dell 2650-servers (2 xeon cpu's with each 3 Ghz, HTT and 3Gb of memory) and with a disk array of 4 Tb connected with a adaptec 39160 scsi controller for storage. We installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on it, and - of course - cyrus 2.2.8 (from the po