On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 16:31 -0600, Michael Gale wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone tried to keep a Cyrus mail store on a shared storage device ? > > Again with the shared storage, we want to have one box just accept mail > for final delivery and store users email in there account which is > accessible through a FC to some sort of shared storage. > > Then we would have multiple servers running Cyrus IMAP, each independent > of each other were users could login and access their mail account. > > So could Cyrus IMAP servers all access the same message store partition > at once ? You could try it. I don't know if this has been tried yet or not; maybe others have tried it. > and would a reiserf file system be ok or do I need some thing > like GFS for locking ? Mounting a single reiserfs partition from a SAN on multiple systems would nearly guarantee data corruption. (You really need a clustered file system to do this kind of thing.) -- Lon
