Anyone looked at using GFS. I found it very easy to use, reliable and pretty fast. I ran it on RedHat ES.
This gives me the flexabiltiy of having multiple hosts connected to the same volume. The more hosts, the more load balancing and redundancy you have. The storeage would preferably be on a SAN of course.
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Francisco Reyes Sent: 29 November 2006 12:51 AM To: Jasper Bryant-Greene Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Redundant shared mail store?
Jasper Bryant-Greene writes:
I prefer option 1, although it's expensive. What have other people used? Do we have other options?
How redudant does it need to be? How big is the setup? Does whatever OS you plan to use, works well with NFS?
I use FreeBSD as the OS and we had terrible experience with NFS. I think NFS servers are probably the way to go... if you have the budget, but that was not an option for us.
We are planning on having a backup/spare server and doign RSYNCS to it, but that may not be acceptable if you don't the possibility of loosing any mail.