For what it's worth, I have a configuration that works this way with a
NetApp. We've got a content switch in front of the two servers that
does automatic failover if the primary box goes down, and so far it's
worked flawlessly.
I turned off all the database checkpointing and pruning on the sec
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Ian G Batten wrote:
> Sun if the first goes bang). Are there issues with Cyrus over NFS if
> the running copy of Cyrus has an assurance that it's the only writer?
Locking *must* work at all times (in your case, it needs not be
network-aware, but still it needs to work for the
It has always been my understanding that Cyrus isn't supported over NFS.
Clearly, getting locking working for the scenario of two machines
running Cyrus sharing /var/imap is Very Hard. However, what if I only
want to use _one_ instance of Cyrus, with failover (essentially, one Sun
sat in front of