All, > -----Original Message----- > From: Janne Peltonen [mailto:janne.peltonen@xxxxxxxxxxx] > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:42:16AM +0100, Simon Matter wrote: > [...] > > 2) Several people on this list have confirmed that they are running > > cyrus-imapd clusters on shared storage (SAN) which works fine with a > > cluster filesystem. That tells me that shared access to > cyrus databases > > works fine as long as the filesystem used provides proper > locking, which > > means in case of a cluster that the cluster filesystem has > to coordinate > > locking among all cluster members. Isn't that the main > reason why those > > filesystems exist? > [...] > > You're completely correct, this is the kind of system I'm building and > others have had in production use (see the thread on clusters, GFS and > HA, for instance - begins at > http://www.mail-archive.com/info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ms g30675.html > (couldn't open the official info-cyrus archive)). So you > /can/ run Cyrus > on multiple servers accessing the same mailboxes database. Just don't > use BDB. Don't even compile it in. Ah, didn't think of that. Yes, that would work just fine. Regards, Sarah Walters ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
