Re: [Gluster-users] Email storage backend for Sendmail, Maildir, and Courier-imap

2009-01-27 Thread Keith Freedman
At 05:16 AM 1/27/2009, Cory Meyer wrote: >There was some talk of using GlusterFS for email storage last >November. Is anyone else successfully using this in a production enviroment? I use glusterfs 2.0rc1 on production web hosting environment, so this has email/imap/web/ftp we don't really ove

Re: [Gluster-users] Email storage backend for Sendmail, Maildir, and Courier-imap

2009-01-27 Thread Cory Meyer
I've upgraded GlusterFS from 1.3.12 to 2.0rc1 and ran into the same duplicated messages. According to the packet captures the duplicate messages problem looks to be more client related as the operation is taking too long and times out then re-connects to issue the same IMAP COPY command. I haven

Re: [Gluster-users] Email storage backend for Sendmail, Maildir, and Courier-imap

2009-01-22 Thread Keith Freedman
we ran into this problem. it seems related to timestamps being off by microseconds. when someone would check their email on one machine, then hit another whose time was off by even microseconds, it would think all the messages are suddenly new or different from ones it's checked. my guess is thi

Re: [Gluster-users] Email storage backend for Sendmail, Maildir, and Courier-imap

2009-01-21 Thread Anand Avati
> Main issue so far seems to be related with Courier-Imap in that when moving > messages between IMAP folders some messages are duplicated with the > io-threads enabled on the client side. Issue looks to be on the > Courier-IMAP side though I haven't seen this with NFS and the duplicate > messages

[Gluster-users] Email storage backend for Sendmail, Maildir, and Courier-imap

2009-01-21 Thread Cory Meyer
I'm working on a project to use GlusterFS as the backend for email storage to replace the current NFS implementation. The goal is to configure GlusterFS w/AFR to replicate the files across all 3 storage nodes. Each storage node will also act a an email server configured behind a load balancer ru