[Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?
Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns I am trying to address where I work.
Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database?
NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are extremely expensive.
I also don't see any distributed filesystem which is mature and available for the OS we use (FreeBSD).
I recall at one point, many months back, Timo mentioned that perhaps storing the messages in the database was a possibility for the future. Any additional thoughts on this?
Francisco Reyes spake the following on 4/28/2007 9:42 AM:
Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns I am trying to address where I work.
Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database?
NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are extremely expensive.
I also don't see any distributed filesystem which is mature and available for the OS we use (FreeBSD).
I recall at one point, many months back, Timo mentioned that perhaps storing the messages in the database was a possibility for the future. Any additional thoughts on this? If you want to experiment with a inexpensive NAS with replication, look at Freenas. It can do nfs sharing and automatic replication with rsync. And it is free and based on Freebsd. Still immature, but it has a lot of promise.
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Scott Silva writes:
If you want to experiment with a inexpensive NAS with replication, look at Freenas. It can do nfs sharing and automatic replication with rsync. And it is free and based on Freebsd. Still immature, but it has a lot of promise.
Our experience with FreeBSD+NFS has been less than stellar. We had a lot of issues when we tried to use NFS as a mailstore repository in FreeBSD.
Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns I am trying to address where I work.
Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database?
NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are extremely expensive.
Worth checking out is openfiler: http://www.openfiler.com/
I also don't see any distributed filesystem which is mature and available for the OS we use (FreeBSD).
A well designed NAS/SAN will work well regardless of the client OS.
-- Kenny Dail kend@amigo.net
Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database?
NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are extremely expensive.
gluster is looking extremely interesting although it's rather new. I've tried the beta of file replication and it works, the non-beta is due out today..
John
John Rowe writes:
gluster is looking extremely interesting although it's rather new.
Thanks. Saw it on a list of distributed FS but didn't click on it.
I was planning to take a look at AFS and Coda to start. Will also take a look at gluster, although so far it seems a Linux only FS.
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:06:43PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
John Rowe writes:
gluster is looking extremely interesting although it's rather new.
Thanks. Saw it on a list of distributed FS but didn't click on it.
I was planning to take a look at AFS and Coda to start. Will also take a look at gluster, although so far it seems a Linux only FS.
I think you should at least try Coda, but don't spend too much time on it. It is mostly a research project. I don't know of anyone really using it in production use. Personally, I'm hoping that someone decides to take the interesting research concepts (disconnected operation) from Coda and port them to OpenAFS ;)
AFS has been in production at universities and a few fortune 500 companies for a long time, and several installations have upwards of 50,000 users.
Troy Benjegerdes writes:
I think you should at least try Coda, but don't spend too much time on it. It is mostly a research project. I don't know of anyone really using it in production use.
Hmmm. Didn't know that. I knew it was a research project, but did not know it was not much in production.
AFS has been in production at universities and a few fortune 500 companies for a long time, and several installations have upwards of 50,000 users.
Good to know. Thanks. Specs wise Coda did sound much better, but maturity is a crucial element.
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:42:48PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns I am trying to address where I work.
Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database?
NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are extremely expensive.
I also don't see any distributed filesystem which is mature and available for the OS we use (FreeBSD).
You should at least check on OpenAFS..
http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/port-freebsd/2007-February/000199.html
The freebsd port looks like it might be a bit hairy yet though.
Troy Benjegerdes writes:
http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/port-freebsd/2007-February/000199.html The freebsd port looks like it might be a bit hairy yet though.
AFS and CODA are on my list to check. Another user in this list mentioned Gluster. I must say gluster looks very interesting.
participants (5)
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Francisco Reyes
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John Rowe
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Kenny Dail
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Scott Silva
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Troy Benjegerdes