Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

2009-09-26 Thread Eric Jon Rostetter
Quoting Mario Antonio : Any good documentation regarding building a RHCS with GFS over DRBD ...? (or just the Rethat web site ..) I've got my internal docs, which I could be talked into sharing... Other than that, the Red Hat docs and the DRBD docs are the best source. Not a lot out there. J

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

2009-09-25 Thread Mario Antonio
Eric Jon Rostetter wrote: Quoting Mario Antonio : How does the system behave when you shutdown one server, and bring it back later ? (are you using an IP load balancer/heart beat etc ?) I'm just using RHCS with GFS over DRBD. DRBD and LVM are started by the system (not managed by the cluste

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Jon Rostetter
Quoting Mario Antonio : How does the system behave when you shutdown one server, and bring it back later ? (are you using an IP load balancer/heart beat etc ?) I'm just using RHCS with GFS over DRBD. DRBD and LVM are started by the system (not managed by the cluster) and everything else (in

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

2009-09-25 Thread Mario Antonio
Eric, Thanks for the update ... How does the system behave when you shutdown one server, and bring it back later ? (are you using an IP load balancer/heart beat etc ?) Regards, Mario Antonio Eric Jon Rostetter wrote: To update an old thread... I'm looking at the possibility of running

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Jon Rostetter
To update an old thread... I'm looking at the possibility of running a pair of servers with Dovecot LDA/imap/pop3 using internal drives with DRBD and GFS (or other clustered FS) for the mail storage and ext3 for the root drive. I'm in testing right now with this setup. Two Dell PE 2900 serv

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

2009-08-25 Thread Eric Jon Rostetter
Quoting Romer Ventura : Last time i checked the free version of DRBD only supports 2 nodes. Correct. But RHCS supports more, and works best with an off number (to prevent cluster splits, etc). The paid version supports 16 nodes. I think there are some limits on that too... Like two read-

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

2009-08-24 Thread Romer Ventura
Last time i checked the free version of DRBD only supports 2 nodes. The paid version supports 16 nodes. This however, doesnt mean that you cannot use the storage via NFS or SMB/CIFS mount point. Only that the DRBD replication will only happen to 2 nodes. If a third node is supported on the

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

2009-08-24 Thread Eric Jon Rostetter
Quoting Guy : I'm looking at the possibility of running a pair of servers with Dovecot LDA/imap/pop3 using internal drives with DRBD and GFS (or other clustered FS) for the mail storage and ext3 for the root drive. I'm in testing right now with this setup. Two Dell PE 2900 servers (quad core

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

2009-06-05 Thread Robert Schetterer
Guy schrieb: > Hi guys, > > I'm looking at the possibility of running a pair of servers with > Dovecot LDA/imap/pop3 using internal drives with DRBD and GFS (or > other clustered FS) for the mail storage and ext3 for the root drive. > > I'm currently using maildrop for delivery and Dovecot imap/p

[Dovecot] Dovecot + DRBD/GFS mailstore

2009-06-05 Thread Guy
Hi guys, I'm looking at the possibility of running a pair of servers with Dovecot LDA/imap/pop3 using internal drives with DRBD and GFS (or other clustered FS) for the mail storage and ext3 for the root drive. I'm currently using maildrop for delivery and Dovecot imap/pop3 with the stores over NF