Re: Using a SAN/GPFS with cyrus

2004-02-01 Thread Stephen L. Ulmer
On 21 Jan 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake: I'm installing Cyrus on a ssytem that will have access to an IBM FAStT SAN with GPFS (a parallel filesystem allowing multiple servers to share a filesystem on a SAN). For redundancy, I was thinking of creating the IMAP folder dir and spool dir on the

Using a SAN/GPFS with cyrus

2004-01-21 Thread Prentice Bisbal
I'm installing Cyrus on a ssytem that will have access to an IBM FAStT SAN with GPFS (a parallel filesystem allowing multiple servers to share a filesystem on a SAN). For redundancy, I was thinking of creating the IMAP folder dir and spool dir on the SAN and then having two mailservers setup

Re: Using a SAN/GPFS with cyrus

2004-01-21 Thread Ken Murchison
Prentice Bisbal wrote: I'm installing Cyrus on a ssytem that will have access to an IBM FAStT SAN with GPFS (a parallel filesystem allowing multiple servers to share a filesystem on a SAN). For redundancy, I was thinking of creating the IMAP folder dir and spool dir on the SAN and then having

Re: Using a SAN/GPFS with cyrus

2004-01-21 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Ken, I'm not too familiar with QFS SANs. Does that have a filesystem interfacewhere the filesystem itself allows multiple SAN clients to access the same filesystem, etc? What if the 2nd system was treated as a hot spare, and would't actually do any mailserving functions until the primary

Re: Using a SAN/GPFS with cyrus

2004-01-21 Thread Ken Murchison
Prentice Bisbal wrote: Ken, I'm not too familiar with QFS SANs. Does that have a filesystem interfacewhere the filesystem itself allows multiple SAN clients to access the same filesystem, etc? Yes, its a shared filesystem. Multiple clients can r/w simultaneously. What if the 2nd system was

Re: Using a SAN/GPFS with cyrus

2004-01-21 Thread Nils Vogels
Prentice Bisbal wrote: For redundancy, I was thinking of creating the IMAP folder dir and spool dir on the SAN and then having two mailservers setup identically using cyrus. If the primary server goes down for any reason, the secondary would automatically begin receiving/delivering mail based