On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 10:41:43AM +0530, Madhav wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i am planning to load balance my mail service using 2 servers. my proposed
> set up is going to be something like the following,
>
> | --- Mach1 ---|
> Mail clients ---> Router1 | |-----/common/qmail
> | --- Mach2 --- |
>
> i would install qmail in machine mach1 in the dir /common/qmail instead of
> the default /var/qmail. Now i would share this directory with mach2 using
> NFS or Coda file system. i would now start the qmail in both servers(mach1
> and mach2). in mach2, qmail will not be installed and only the qmail
> startup script will be created (since it already has access to the qmail
> utilities through the share).
> [...]
> does anyone foresee any problems with this setup? i am a newbie to qmail and
> would like the experts' opinion on this setup :)
You will, of course, have problems.
The qmail queue is designed to be exclusively owned by a single system.
Try searching the list on this exact topic.
Maildir's are desgned to work over NFS. Tough to get good write
performance over NFS, but it should work.
John
