On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 02:31:21AM -0800, Nikola Milutinovic wrote: > > > I tried GFS yesterday, that worked fine too, but I just mounted the > > > volume just on one box (no real cluster) so it was a lousy test > > > anyway... (I could try it later, if I can find some time.) > > > I was, of course, extremely interested in this. So I tried with GFS on > > my two node cluster, and, much to my disappointment, got some errors. > > But the errors didn't look as if they had anything to do with file > > locking of anything such, so I tried the same test on a local (ext3) > > filesystem. And got the same errors. So apparently I'm just not giving > > enough resources to Cyrus (the errors in question were of the format > > Are you trying to access the same imap spool with TWO cyrus instances > at the same time? > > THAT will not work! One logical/virtual/actual IMAP spool can be > controlled by one instance at the time. So, GFS can give you fail-over > cluster, unless the computer nodes are clustered themselves, > transparently to Cyrus. It will work, and does work. See the numerous threads on that subject on this list. To get you started: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg30675.html --Janne Peltonen ---- 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
