Based on everything I've been able to gather, the ultimate solution consists
of multiple qmail servers accessing a NetApp filer via NFS. In the past, I
had heard that Linux's NFS implementation was somewhat buggy. I'm sure that
it has since been made more robust, however I'm curious if anyone else is
using a similar setup on a large scale? I'd be interested in hearing about
any setups that involve multiple servers accessing a NetApp filer. Finally,
with cost being much less important than scalability, performance, etc. what
would typically be the bottleneck in a setup like this? The connection from
the servers to the filer will be gigabit ethernet. If it makes sense, I'll
throw quad xeon/1G ram/etc. on all the servers, but I suspect most of it
would be wasted. Thanks.
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Josh Arnold
