On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:59:50PM +0100, Guy wrote:
Our current setup uses two NFS mounts accessed simultaneously by two
servers.
[...]
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Are you using mbox, dbox or maildir ?
What % of IMAP and POP3 clients ?
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Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:39:22AM -0700, Brandon Davidson wrote:
As a contrasting data point, we run NFS + random redirects with almost no
problems.
Thanks for your answer as well.
What mailbox format are you using ?
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Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur
hum...@pasteur.fr | Pôle
Thomas,
On 10/22/09 1:29 AM, Thomas Hummel hum...@pasteur.fr wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:39:22AM -0700, Brandon Davidson wrote:
As a contrasting data point, we run NFS + random redirects with almost no
problems.
Thanks for your answer as well.
What mailbox format are you using ?
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:47:25AM +0200, Thomas Hummel wrote:
Actual mail content should be safe.
So you seem to say that indexes files would probably get corrupted but that
clients wouldn't notice it ?
I'm trying to figure out how to use imap-test test script-ing to test this.
Any
On Oct 20, 2009, at 4:47 AM, Thomas Hummel wrote:
If you do it, you'll most likely see some random index related
errors.
But are index related errors recoverable (does dovecot notice and
fix it
dynamically ?) or will they cause client-side corruption ?
How bad would that corruption be ?
2009/10/21 Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi
On Oct 20, 2009, at 4:47 AM, Thomas Hummel wrote:
If you do it, you'll most likely see some random index related errors.
But are index related errors recoverable (does dovecot notice and fix it
dynamically ?) or will they cause client-side corruption ?
On 10/21/09 8:59 AM, Guy wyldf...@gmail.com wrote:
Our current setup uses two NFS mounts accessed simultaneously by two
servers. Our load balancing tries to keep a user on the same server whenever
possible. Initially we just had roundrobin load balancing which led to index
corruption.
The
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:42:08PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Thanks for the answers Timo,
I understand random redirect is not a good idea but I'm trying to evaluate the
damage it can do.
If you do it, you'll most likely see some random index related errors.
But are index related errors
Hello,
Dovecot documentation states that the random redirects to multiple servers
NFS solution is to be avoided and I'm investigation the actual risks of it and
a way to put it to test.
I'm running dovecot-1.2.6 with Maildir (indexes, mailboxes and control files
are all on NFS) and I'm using
On Oct 19, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Thomas Hummel wrote:
Dovecot documentation states that the random redirects to multiple
servers
NFS solution is to be avoided and I'm investigation the actual risks
of it and
a way to put it to test.
If you do it, you'll most likely see some random index
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