On 19.2.2010, at 0.37, Steve wrote: > You can do that. But with GlusterFS and Dovecot you don't need to. You can > mount read/write the same GlusterFS share on all the mail servers. Dovecot > will usually add the hostname of the delivering system into the maildir file > name. As long as the delivery is collision free in terms of file names then > you can scale up as many read/write nodes you like.
This has the same problems as with NFS (assuming the servers aren't only delivering mails, without updating index files). http://wiki.dovecot.org/NFS
