On Friday 29 March 2013 01:18:13 Michael wrote:
short version: Is there any 3 host (two MX and one frontend IMAP) that can use a shared (iSCSI) ext4 volume?
Long version: I am running a very complex setup right now with two MX, two proxies(lmtp/imap)/imap-frontends and two backends mounting an ocfs2 volume.
I would like to reduce the complexity (and the number of hosts) and get rid of ocfs2. I ask myself if I can use an ext4 iSCSI-LUN using this setup:
You could manage the mailboxes only on one machine with using lmtp over network (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP):
MX01 -> lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp -> mail_home: /var/mail MX01 -> lmtp:inet:<ip of imap01>:24 -> IMAP01-> mail_home: /var/mail MX02 -> lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp -> mail_home: /var/mail MX02 -> lmtp:inet:<ip of imap01>:24 -> IMAP01-> mail_home: /var/mail IMAP01 (imap) -> mail_home: /var/mail
So only one node accesses the mail storage and every filesystem should work.
Bye Malte.