>>>>> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:56:23 -0800,
>>>>> Rainer Enders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (re) writes:
re> Since nfs is not recommended to use what is the
re> best solution to setup a cluster solution for a cyrus
re> mailserver. I'm thinking of setting up two servers
re> that talk to the same ufs mounted filesystem.
Don't know about that one. Doubt Cyrus would support load balancing
using a cluster, but perhaps it could handle some kind of failover?
re> One issue is certainly that the OS filesystem shall
re> be a journaling file system since it would take too
re> long to fsck a big disk partition. Or you would use
re> a commercial product like Veritas that provides its
re> own filesystem, with Solaris for example. But that
re> is an expensive solution.
Doesn't OpenBSD have a journaling filesystem? Thought I heard that
on the postfix-users list.
re> I'm wondering what solutions are people using to
re> implement a fault-tolerant system.
Just tried to make the disk structures as redundant as possible
using hardware RAID (in a plaiding configuration). We also have a
habit of mirroring root and swap. See disk failures more than
anything else. Oh, and being an EDU, we can get VxFS/VxVM for our
Sun boxes at a pretty reasonable price.
--
Amos
