On 6/26/07, Adam Megacz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> For argument's sake, let's assume only a single front-end (imapd) >> machine. > That's not especially dangerous, then. the worst risk is screwing with > Cyrus' idea of the universe if a volume goes away under it, like, in > particular i'm uncertain we ever audited cyrus to see if it handled > write failures correctly in every case, Ok, but this should be no worse than (a misguided effort at) running cyrus out of NFS, right? > I suppose I should say the locking semantics we have do make having > multiple front ends dangerous. Sure, I can see that. So, is it safe to say that running cyrus out of AFS is no more risky than running cyrus out of NFS? I think that would be a whole lot less mysterious.
It's no more risky than that, at least for the one frontend case. Otherwise, I think it's a case of different risks.
