2009/9/14 Timo Schoeler <[email protected]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > thus Ciro Iriarte spake: >> Hi, i'm planning to build a postfix+cyrus Active/Active cluster and >> would like to know if anybody has done something similar. My main >> doubt is about using ClusterIP or a loadbalancer with LVS in front of >> the two nodes. LVS would imply a third machine and i'm not sure how >> the origin of the outgoing connections (IP address) is handled by >> ClusterIP. >> >> Any comments?. > > Hi, > > I don't really see the need of a third machine (thusly possibly > introducing a SPOF) into this setup, as two machines (running postfix, > cyrus, etc.) may hold the shared virtual IP themselves. > > - From my experience, however, cyrus is not the best solution to be run in > a cluster. Maybe dovecot is worth a look? > > (I write this being a very long year cyrus user myself, but planning to > migrate to dovecot for various reasons, not only the 'cluster issue'.) > > HTH, > > Timo > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iD8DBQFKrnEEO/2mgkVVV7kRAtEcAJ9Mh0rLUeOfXB098TRUKIdPKFRjnwCeN0a6 > WEkHhTMamyB21hfd8Vr3/+4= > =CUX5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Can you elaborate on you cyrus + cluster experience? (maybe out of band if it's OT), OCFS2 1.4.0 supports shared writeable mmap now, which seems all that is needed to run cyrus on top of it. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com -- _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
