On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 02:23, Mark Crispin wrote: > > Unless the account is mirrored between multiple servers in realtime as > > well (how?), user can also lose mails. Better than everyone's mail > > breaking, but I'd prefer transparent failovers without any data loss. > > Why do you believe that an IMAP server system is less robust than an NFS > server system? What magic exists that makes a machine running NFS be > reliable and a machine running IMAP unreliable?
I didn't say anything about NFS. Filesystems clustered over multiple separate computers providing automatic failover if a few of the computers die are more interesting. Of course that assumes that they work correctly - I don't have personal experience with them yet.
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