Re: Cyrus and scale-out

2016-06-12 Thread Alvin Starr via Info-cyrus
I was under the impression that Cyrus Murder handled the horizontal scale out of mailboxes across multiple servers. I have not yet needed to scale up to the point where this would be an issue but I would love to know what the answer would be. On 06/12/2016 10:14 AM, Bron Gondwana via

Re: Cyrus and scale-out

2016-06-12 Thread Bron Gondwana via Info-cyrus
Funny you should ask :) http://asg.andrew.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.cyrus-devel=4939 I definitely have plans of allowing everything to be written back in a reliable way so that losing an IMAP server is guaranteed(within the bounds of software reliability and all the parts

Re: Cyrus and scale-out

2016-06-11 Thread Scott Lambert via Info-cyrus
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 05:18:12PM +0200, Sebastian Hagedorn via Info-cyrus wrote: > Hi, > > According to our systems people, we should scale out instead, the way > Exchange 2013 and Dovecot Pro apparently do. The idea, as I understand it, > is to have multiple backends that all provide access

Cyrus and scale-out

2016-06-10 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn via Info-cyrus
Hi, our systems guys keep telling us that we are doing things in an old-fashioned way and should get with the program. We are currently using a single Cyrus server with roughly 13 TB of storage provided by a SAN. We used to have a Red Hat High Availability cluster, but we traded that in for