Re: Distributed File Systems

2002-10-22 Thread Michael Fair
> The easiest way to have fault tolerance would be to > match up your IMAP servers in an active/active setup > where each IMAP server has another server that's > willing to take over if a failure occurs. As I mentioned earlier in this thread this seems a rather costly approach for what little

Re: Distributed File Systems

2002-10-21 Thread David Chait
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Re: Distributed File Systems

2002-10-20 Thread Simon Loader
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:33, David Lang wrote: > another option to consider. > > I have heard of people hacking cyrus to store it's data in a SQL database > instead of a raw filesystem. if you do this you can then invoke the full > set of SQL replication capabilities (including better transaction

RE: Distributed File Systems

2002-10-19 Thread Brian
Paul Dekkers said: > AFS was commercial I thought, http://www.openafs.org/ -- Brian

Re: Distributed File Systems

2002-10-19 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
-- David Chait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is rumored to have mumbled on Freitag, 18. Oktober 2002 23:23 Uhr -0700 regarding Distributed File Systems: Hi, Has anyone here looked into or had experience with Distributed File Systems (AFS, NFS, CODA, etc) applied to mail partitions to allow for cluset

RE: Distributed File Systems

2002-10-19 Thread Paul Dekkers
Hi, I haven’t looked at these filesystems so closely, but I want at around the same thing as you I guess: if the “main” imap-server fails, let another one take over the job (e.g. with IP takeover). In my opinion maybe the NNTP support provides something in the future: it has the possibility to sy