From: Jonathan Tripathy <jon...@abpni.co.uk> > I will have 2 Postfix/Dovecot servers. Each will be configured to use a > central database and will also use an NFS mount for mail storage. Since > they will both be configured with central storage, I can use my > load-balancer to distribute load between both of them, for both SMTP and > IMAP, correct? > As for the nfs server, this will be set up with DRBD as per this article: >http://www.tutorialsconnect.com/2009/01/how-to-setup-a-redundant-nfs-server-with-drbd-and-heartbeat-in-centos-5/ >/ > There will be 2 VM used for this.
I did not follow the entire discussion but, do you need NFS at all if you only have 2 servers? Couldn't you just use DRBD directly on the Postfix/Dovecot servers? JD