Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-05-03 Thread Francisco Reyes
Troy Benjegerdes writes: I think you should at least try Coda, but don't spend too much time on it. It is mostly a research project. I don't know of anyone really using it in production use. Hmmm. Didn't know that. I knew it was a research project, but did not know it was not much in

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-05-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Scott Silva writes: If you want to experiment with a inexpensive NAS with replication, look at Freenas. It can do nfs sharing and automatic replication with rsync. And it is free and based on Freebsd. Still immature, but it has a lot of promise. Our experience with FreeBSD+NFS has been less

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-05-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
John Rowe writes: gluster is looking extremely interesting although it's rather new. Thanks. Saw it on a list of distributed FS but didn't click on it. I was planning to take a look at AFS and Coda to start. Will also take a look at gluster, although so far it seems a Linux only FS.

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-05-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Troy Benjegerdes writes: http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/port-freebsd/2007-February/000199.html The freebsd port looks like it might be a bit hairy yet though. AFS and CODA are on my list to check. Another user in this list mentioned Gluster. I must say gluster looks very interesting.

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-05-02 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:06:43PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: John Rowe writes: gluster is looking extremely interesting although it's rather new. Thanks. Saw it on a list of distributed FS but didn't click on it. I was planning to take a look at AFS and Coda to start. Will also take

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-04-30 Thread John Rowe
Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database? NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are extremely expensive. gluster is looking extremely interesting although it's rather new. I've tried the beta of file replication and it works, the non-beta is due

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-04-29 Thread Kenny Dail
Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns I am trying to address where I work. Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database? NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are extremely expensive. Worth checking out is

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-04-29 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:42:48PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns I am trying to address where I work. Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database? NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second

[Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-04-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns I am trying to address where I work. Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database? NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are extremely expensive. I also don't see any distributed

Re: [Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

2007-04-28 Thread Scott Silva
Francisco Reyes spake the following on 4/28/2007 9:42 AM: Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns I am trying to address where I work. Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database? NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device