Re: [OpenAFS] Re: cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-06-26 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Adam Megacz wrote: Robert Banz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't try to use Cyrus on AFS. It's a losing proposition from a performance and data integrity standpoint. Sorry to resurrect an old thread here, but I recently got grilled on this point and was embarrassed at

[OpenAFS] Re: cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-06-26 Thread Adam Megacz
Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Banz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't try to use Cyrus on AFS. It's a losing proposition from a performance and data integrity standpoint. Sorry to resurrect an old thread here, but I recently got grilled on this point and was embarrassed

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-06-26 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Adam Megacz wrote: are you going to have multiple front ends accessing the data, or just one machine? For argument's sake, let's assume only a single front-end (imapd) machine. That's not especially dangerous, then. the worst risk is screwing with Cyrus' idea of the

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-06-26 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Adam Megacz wrote: are you going to have multiple front ends accessing the data, or just one machine? For argument's sake, let's assume only a single front-end (imapd) machine. That's not especially dangerous, then. the

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Banz
I personally wouldn't want my mail storage on AFS. I say that because, right now, it is, and I can't wait to get it off of it. It's caused me nothing but problems, because the AFS fileserver doesn't just seem to be made to handle the transactional intensity of mail-land. We got

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-06-26 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Robert Banz wrote: I personally wouldn't want my mail storage on AFS. I say that because, right now, it is, and I can't wait to get it off of it. It's caused me nothing but problems, because the AFS fileserver doesn't just seem to be made to handle the transactional

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Banz
On Jun 26, 2007, at 15:08, Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Robert Banz wrote: I personally wouldn't want my mail storage on AFS. I say that because, right now, it is, and I can't wait to get it off of it. It's caused me nothing but problems, because the AFS fileserver

[OpenAFS] Re: cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-06-26 Thread Adam Megacz
Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For argument's sake, let's assume only a single front-end (imapd) machine. That's not especially dangerous, then. the worst risk is screwing with Cyrus' idea of the universe if a volume goes away under it, like, in particular i'm uncertain we

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-06-26 Thread Derrick Brashear
On 6/26/07, Adam Megacz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For argument's sake, let's assume only a single front-end (imapd) machine. That's not especially dangerous, then. the worst risk is screwing with Cyrus' idea of the universe if a volume goes away

[OpenAFS] Re: cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-06-26 Thread Adam Megacz
Sorry to keep nagging you on this issue... Robert Banz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i wouldn't expect corruption issues here, in spite of the question of whether *performance* sucks because you're imposing another network round trip (minimum) in an already-network protocol No corruption

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-06-26 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Adam Megacz wrote: Sorry to keep nagging you on this issue... Robert Banz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i wouldn't expect corruption issues here, in spite of the question of whether *performance* sucks because you're imposing another network round trip (minimum) in an already-network protocol

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-06-26 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Adam Megacz wrote: Sorry to keep nagging you on this issue... But not sorry enough not to. Specifically, is it that the fileserver gets bogged down by having to keep track of too many outstanding callbacks? No, by having to deal with the results of breaking them and

[OpenAFS] Re: cyrus with storage in afs?

2007-05-22 Thread Adam Megacz
Chaskiel M Grundman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PAM authentication is delegated to an outside process. Ah, that's unfortunate. - a -- PGP/GPG: 5C9F F366 C9CF 2145 E770 B1B8 EFB1 462D A146 C380 ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list