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On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 8:39 PM, David Touzeau <david at touzeau.eu> wrote:

>  Thanks for this answer, i have changed the cyrus-imap working directory to
> the mount point.
> Everything works except permissions problems
>
> What i means...
>
> here it is the cyrus-imap events in the mail.log:
>
> Dec 27 16:40:05 ub-cluster2 cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[9145]: DBERROR: dbenv->open
> '/var/lib/cyrus/db' failed: Permission denied
> Dec 27 16:40:05 ub-cluster2 cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[9145]: DBERROR: init() on
> berkeley
> Dec 27 16:40:05 ub-cluster2 cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[9145]: checkpointing cyrus
> databases
> Dec 27 16:40:05 ub-cluster2 cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[9145]: DBERROR: archive
> /var/lib/cyrus-clustered/db: cyrusdb error
> Dec 27 16:40:05 ub-cluster2 cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[9145]: DBERROR db4:
> txn_checkpoint interface requires an environment configured for the
> transaction subsystem
> Dec 27 16:40:05 ub-cluster2 cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[9145]: DBERROR: couldn't
> checkpoint: Invalid argument
> Dec 27 16:40:05 ub-cluster2 cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[9145]: DBERROR: sync
> /var/lib/cyrus-clustered/db: cyrusdb error
> Dec 27 16:40:05 ub-cluster2 cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[9145]: DBERROR db4:
> DB_ENV->log_archive interface requires an environment configured for the
> logging subsystem
> Dec 27 16:40:05 ub-cluster2 cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[9145]: DBERROR: error listing
> log files: Invalid argument
> Dec 27 16:40:05 ub-cluster2 cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[9145]: DBERROR: archive
> /var/lib/cyrus-clustered/db: cyrusdb error
> Dec 27 16:40:05 ub-cluster2 cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[9145]: archiving database
> file: /var/lib/cyrus-clustered/mailboxes.db
> Dec 27 16:40:05 ub-cluster2 cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[9145]: error opening
> /var/lib/cyrus-clustered/mailboxes.db for reading
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> it seems there is ownership permissions problems.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> cyrus-imap run has cyrus:mail for user and group.
>
> when doing an ls -la on the mounted path :
>
> drwxr-xr-x 15 cyrus mail  4096 2009-12-27 17:19 .
> drwxr-xr-x 15 cyrus mail  4096 2009-12-27 17:19 ..
> -rwxr-x---  1 bind  mail   144 2009-12-27 12:01 annotations.db
> -rwxr-x---  1 bind  mail   144 2009-11-25 17:36 annotations.db~
> drwxr-x--- 13 bind  mail  4096 2009-11-25 17:36 cyrus
> drwxr-x---  2 bind  mail  4096 2009-12-27 12:01 db
> drwx------  2 cyrus mail  4096 2009-12-27 16:57 db.backup1
> drwxr-x---  2 bind  mail  4096 2009-12-27 16:29 db.backup2
> -rwxr-x---  1 bind  mail  8192 2009-12-27 04:05 deliver.db
> -rwxr-x---  1 bind  mail  8192 2009-11-25 17:36 deliver.db~
> drwxr-x---  2 bind  mail  4096 2009-12-23 19:30 log
> -rwxr-x---  1 bind  mail  8744 2009-12-27 12:01 mailboxes.db
> -rwxr-x---  1 bind  mail  1640 2009-11-25 17:36 mailboxes.db~
> -rwxr-x---  1 bind  mail  3676 2009-11-25 17:36 mailboxes.db.old~
> -rwxr-x---  1 bind  mail   373 2009-11-25 17:36 mailboxlist.txt~
> drwxr-x---  2 bind  mail  4096 2009-12-23 19:30 msg
> drwxr-x---  2 bind  mail 12288 2009-12-27 15:29 proc
> drwxr-x--- 28 bind  mail  4096 2009-12-23 19:28 quota
> drwxr-x---  2 bind  mail  4096 2009-12-23 19:30 rpm
> drwxr-x---  2 bind  mail  4096 2009-11-26 08:22 socket
> drwxr-x---  2 bind  mail  4096 2009-12-23 19:30 srvtab
> drwxr-x---  2 bind  mail  4096 2009-11-25 17:36 sync
> -rwxr-x---  1 bind  mail     0 2009-12-27 03:13 titi
> -rwxr-x---  1 bind  mail  8192 2009-12-27 04:05 tls_sessions.db
> -rwxr-x---  1 bind  mail  8192 2009-11-25 17:36 tls_sessions.db~
> drwxr-x--- 28 bind  mail  4096 2009-12-23 19:28 user
>
> you can see that files and folder are owned by bind:mail instead cyrus:mail
>
>
Are you sure the files are created by cyrus:mail instead of bind:mail? The
reason I am asking this question is there is atleast one file db.backup1
which is owned by cyrus:mail.

mount points are :
> /etc/artica-cluster/dispatcher-2.vol on /var/spool/cyrus/mail-clustered
> type fuse.glusterfs (rw,allow_other,default_permissions,max_read=131072)
> /etc/artica-cluster/dispatcher-1.vol on /var/lib/cyrus-clustered type
> fuse.glusterfs (rw,allow_other,default_permissions,max_read=13107
>
> how to force the client to mount has a specific user in order to not
> corrupt the permissions settings ?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -------- Message initial --------
> *De*: Raghavendra G <raghavendra at gluster.com<Raghavendra%20G%20%3craghavendra at gluster.com%3e>
> >
> *?*: david <david at touzeau.eu <david%20%3cdavid at touzeau.eu%3e>>
> *Sujet*: Re: try to understand how it works...
> *Date*: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:00:18 +0400
>
>
> I meant, you can have the cyrus-imap installation directory on glusterfs
> mount point, which helps you to maintain the mail directory and indexation
> directory on gluster mount thereby replicating the contents of both the
> directories.
>
> 2009/12/27 raghavendra <raghavendra at gluster.com>
>
>
>
>  On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:27 PM, David Touzeau <david at touzeau.eu> wrote:
>
>  Thanks for this answer
>
> i real production mode, i would like to create a cluster for cyrus-imap
>
> cyrus-imap use  2 directories.
> /var/lib/cyrus
> /var/spool/cyrus/mail
>
> I have 3 servers with cyrus-imap installed.
> The goal is when a mail is saved on one of these servers in
> /var/spool/cyrus/mail and in /var/lib/cyrus (indexation directory)  it is
> automatically replicated on the 2 servers.
>
> According your answer how i can create this kind of structure ?
>
>
> You can have this by maintaining /var as a glusterfs mount-point (the
> configuration used to mount glusterfs should have replicate).
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -------- Message initial --------
> *De*: Raghavendra G <raghavendra at gluster.com<Raghavendra%20G%20%3craghavendra at gluster.com%3e>
> >
> *?*: david <david at touzeau.eu <david%20%3cdavid at touzeau.eu%3e>>
> *Cc*: gluster-users <gluster-users at gluster.org<gluster-users%20%3cgluster-users at gluster.org%3e>
> >
> *Sujet*: Re: try to understand how it works...
> *Date*: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:03:06 +0400
>
>
>
>
> Hi David,
>
> Please find the comments inlined below.
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 4:26 PM, David Touzeau <david at touzeau.eu> wrote:
>
> Dear
>
> My english is poor but after several research i will not really
> understand how the replication works.
> I have created 3 clusters server that share 2 directories in
> cluster/replicate mode
>
> /home/replicate
> /home/replicate2
>
> each server mount the pool clusters in /mnt/replicate
> and /mnt/replicate2
>
> if i add a file in /home/replicate in one node, nothing happen in others
> node.
> The file is not added in the desired folder /home/replicate on others
> nodes.
>
>
> you should not do any filesystem operations on the back-end directory
> directly. The correct way of doing it, is to create a file on /mnt/replicate
> or /mnt/replicate2 (two mount-points are not necessary for correct working
> of replicate, unless you really want two mount points) and checking the
> backend directories (ls on both backend directories should show the file
> being created).
>
>
>  But if a do an "ls mnt/replicate" in the mounted directory the file is
> correctly added on all nodes.
>
> did i must cron the "ls" in order to execute the replication ?
>
>
> No, during normal operation, replicate automatically replicates. Only when
> there is a node failure, and when the node comes up you need to execute 'ls
> -lR /mnt/replicate" to heal the node which is up now with the node which was
> running fine.
>
>
>  did the cluster mode is not in "real time" and this is the standard
> procedure ?
>
>
> best regards
>
>
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>
> regards,
> --
> Raghavendra G
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Raghavendra G
>
>
>
>
> --
> Raghavendra G
>
>


-- 
Raghavendra G


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