[Dovecot] scalability and arhive ideas

2009-08-25 Thread fernando
Hi, I´m reading the past topics related to archive and scalability of dovecot, they are all very interesting. Here, I´m using two dovecot proxies in front of five storages pairs, and we split the domain´s accounts among those servers. So, we can share the i/o load and if one server goes down only

Re: [Dovecot] scalability and arhive ideas

2009-08-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 11:00 -0300, ferna...@dfcom.com.br wrote: this is very weird and (at same time) very interesting approach. Instead of put all messages into one maildir and this maildir into one server, this maildir (?) is spplited among many servers - so, if one servers fails the account

Re: [Dovecot] scalability and arhive ideas

2009-08-25 Thread fernando
Hi Timo, Yes it´s related, but I don´t understand '... You'll just need to implement a filesystem that allows distributing a single user's mails to multiple servers ...'. My idea is just in the direction that we don´t need to care about filesystem, we don´t need any distribuited filesystem...let

Re: [Dovecot] scalability and arhive ideas

2009-08-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 12:12 -0300, ferna...@dfcom.com.br wrote: Hi Timo, Yes it´s related, but I don´t understand '... You'll just need to implement a filesystem that allows distributing a single user's mails to multiple servers ...'. My idea is just in the direction that we don´t need to

Re: [Dovecot] scalability and arhive ideas

2009-08-25 Thread fernando
I´m not sure if i´m being quite clear about my solution (pardon my english)... I´m not thinking in any filesystem abstraction layer, I´m afraid of this kind of solution. If some corruption happens we can loose data - and the crash-recovery is not easy. I´m suggesting the opposite, to not have an

Re: [Dovecot] scalability and arhive ideas

2009-08-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 12:41 -0300, ferna...@dfcom.com.br wrote: I´m suggesting the opposite, to not have an abstraction layer. The abstraction layer would be the proxy - dovecot does the abstraction layer. When I´m telling 'proxy' I meaning something like the proxy feature of the dovecot.

Re: [Dovecot] scalability and arhive ideas

2009-08-25 Thread Stephen Usher
ferna...@dfcom.com.br wrote: I´m reading the past topics related to archive and scalability of dovecot, they are all very interesting. Here, I´m using two dovecot proxies in front of five storages pairs, and we split the domain´s accounts among those servers. So, we can share the i/o load and if

Re: [Dovecot] scalability and arhive ideas

2009-08-25 Thread fernando
Hi Timo, Do you have any experience using Dovecot and Glusterfs ? How about the maturity of Glusterfs in a huge email environment ? Fernando On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 12:12 -0300, ferna...@dfcom.com.br wrote: Hi Timo, Yes it´s related, but I don´t understand '... You'll just need to

Re: [Dovecot] scalability and arhive ideas

2009-08-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 14:13 -0300, ferna...@dfcom.com.br wrote: Hi Timo, Do you have any experience using Dovecot and Glusterfs ? Not really. How about the maturity of Glusterfs in a huge email environment ? No idea. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part