Re: MBX mailboxes over iSCSI

2004-11-25 Thread Guy Dawson
Ralf Utermann wrote: Mark Crispin wrote: [...] I doubt very much that mbx format will work on any network filesystem, even if the locking problem is solved. The only network filesystem that I know of in which mbx would work was the old TOPS-20 from two decades ago, and only because that filesys

Re: MBX mailboxes over iSCSI

2004-11-24 Thread Ralf Utermann
Mark Crispin wrote: [...] I doubt very much that mbx format will work on any network filesystem, even if the locking problem is solved. The only network filesystem that I know of in which mbx would work was the old TOPS-20 from two decades ago, and only because that filesystem had rigorous toke

Re: MBX mailboxes over iSCSI

2004-11-24 Thread Guy Dawson
Mark Crispin wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Guy Dawson wrote: iSCSI servers can be configured to support multiple seperate iSCSI targets (logical disks) for multiple seperate iSCSI clients (servers). Each server having it's own logical disk. In this instance there is no shared file system. However all

Re: MBX mailboxes over iSCSI

2004-11-23 Thread Richard Westlake
Truth endures but spelling changes-- Anon. -- On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:39:09 +0200 > From: Yiorgos Adamopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: MBX mailboxes over iSCSI

2004-11-23 Thread Mark Crispin
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Guy Dawson wrote: iSCSI servers can be configured to support multiple seperate iSCSI targets (logical disks) for multiple seperate iSCSI clients (servers). Each server having it's own logical disk. In this instance there is no shared file system. However all file systems are st

Re: MBX mailboxes over iSCSI

2004-11-23 Thread Guy Dawson
Mark Crispin wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: Does anybody have any experiense on such a configuration? iSCSI partitions look like local disks to the OS (or at least this is my understandig) but in truth they reside on another server on the network. I doubt very much that

Re: MBX mailboxes over iSCSI

2004-11-23 Thread Mark Crispin
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: Does anybody have any experiense on such a configuration? iSCSI partitions look like local disks to the OS (or at least this is my understandig) but in truth they reside on another server on the network. I doubt very much that mbx format will work

MBX mailboxes over iSCSI

2004-11-23 Thread Yiorgos Adamopoulos
Does anybody have any experiense on such a configuration? iSCSI partitions look like local disks to the OS (or at least this is my understandig) but in truth they reside on another server on the network. I am going to have 20K mailboxes, but by 2005/06 I may be forced to increase this number t