[Dovecot] Replication plans

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu May 17 18:58:03 EEST 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 09:23 -0600, Aredridel wrote:
> Jonathan wrote:
> > Hi Timo,
> >
> > MySQL gets around the problem of multiple masters allocating the
> > same primary key, by giving each server its own address range
> > (e.g. first machine uses 1,5,9,13 next one uses 2,6,10,14,...).
> > Would this work for UIDs?
> UIDs have to be sequential. Causes some problems.

Right. The IMAP requirement for UIDs to be growing is the main problem
with IMAP replication.

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