using Cyrus was Re: Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

[craigwhite at azapple.com (Craig White)]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 01:42 +0800, Feizhou wrote:
> > 
> > Typing this, what does this have with the topic of using Cyrus?  It's the
> > storage.  Cyrus will work with SAN as happy as it will work with local 
> > drives.
> 
> Not in a cluster it won't. That's the point. Two cyrus boxes sharing a 
> SAN = nightmare. If they don't recommend NFS, they won't recommend a SAN 
> either. Hence their murder scheme which will not provide HA of all 
> mailboxes.
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this has gone so far afield it isn't relevant to much of anything.

If you are going for HA and tying it all to a single SAN server, then
where is your single point of breakage?

This doesn't relate to but a very tiny percentage of users on this list
and those that are choosing SAN are making careful evaluations of all of
the software that they use.

Craig