On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 09:40:39PM +0800, Brian Baquiran wrote:
> Hi,
> We're setting up a big Qmail installation. It is projected that the number of
> users will be in the hundreds of thousands within a couple of months.
>
> Our current idea is to have one big NFS server, and a lot of lightweight
> SMTP/POP3 servers that mount their /var/qmail/ and /home/vpopmail from the NFS
> server. Is this OK? How should I go about this?
>
> Any suggestions, guidelines or pointers would be helpful.
Make sure that you will have enough money a year down the line that you can
ditch nfs and go to a larger and more replicable backing store, like an EMC
symmetrix. Anyone know if they're competitors like MTI can do the job?
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The 5 year plan:
In five years we'll make up another plan.
Or just re-use this one.
