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> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:43:17 CDT
> To: Jhun Hubac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: "David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: BACKUP POP SERVER
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> I don't see what is saved by this arrangement, over having all
> the users connect directly to the machine with the mailboxes:
>
> all you gain is complexity and additional possible points of failure.
>
> NFS isn't free, those packets need to get read off the disk and
> written to the LAN just the same as if the MUA connects directly.
In this specific case, your statement appears to be true, but in a
different case, you may have an improvement.
You can make your NFS "server" a distributed cluster of machines, and
take a single point of failure out of the picture (assuming that your
have multiple network paths, etc, etc). See the EMC Celera (sp) as an
example.
My $.01 (too cheep for $.02 :)
Brian
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