Re: rados mailbox? (was Re: Ceph for email storage)

2012-07-10 Thread Smart Weblications GmbH
Am 10.07.2012 07:45, schrieb Kristofer: Very short answer to this. It can work if you direct all email requests for a particular mailbox to a single machine. You need to avoid locking between servers as much as possible. Messages will need to be indexed, period. Or else your life will

Re: rados mailbox? (was Re: Ceph for email storage)

2012-07-09 Thread Kristofer
Very short answer to this. It can work if you direct all email requests for a particular mailbox to a single machine. You need to avoid locking between servers as much as possible. Messages will need to be indexed, period. Or else your life will suck. Dovecot has a nice writeup on this

Re: rados mailbox? (was Re: Ceph for email storage)

2012-07-05 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 04-07-12 22:40, Sage Weil wrote: Although Ceph fs would technically work for storing mail with maildir, when you step back from the situation, Maildir + a distributed file system is a pretty terrible way to approach mail storage. Maildir was designed to work around the limited consistency of