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Re: MTA (SMTP/POP) + LVS

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Subject: Re: MTA (SMTP/POP) + LVS
From: François Chenais <francois@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:42:25 +0200
Le jeu 22/04/2004 à 00:35, Mike McLean a écrit :
> François Chenais wrote:
> >>The simplest solution (although a bit of a hack) is to have the same mail
> >>spool directory exported to all realservers. 
> > 
> > 
> > Yes but it's not safe if the disk (or the server hosting the disk)
> > brakes. 
> 
> Yes.  And the fallout is that generally this sort of RW activity does 
> not work well with LVS.
> 
> When such things are required, one reasonable solution is to have a 
> three tier setup where the lvs director load balances across multiple 
> servers (in your case pop/imap), which access their data via a highly 
> available shared filesystem/database.  Of course this requires more 
> machines and more hardware.
> 

Do you know the solutions of "highly available shared
filesystem/database " under Linux ?

        Thanks

                François


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