Re: Network Block Device w/ RAID for Content Replication (Was: Re: load balance web site)

[Joseph Mack <mack@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Atif Ghaffar wrote:

> 
> > I don't understand yet how your mail works. Can you please explain it
> > some
> > more?
> The mail works with IMAP server.
> The back end servers are responsible for writting mails to 
> /var/spool/imap/user

how is the writelocking acheived? There is only one /var/spool/imap
directory and it's nbd exported to the backend servers and nbd 
has normal filesystem write locking?

> The front end servers only read mails via an imap server.

OK the INBOX is on the users machine not the cluster. 
 
> For the application I am using IMP (http://www.horde.org/imp)

OK thanks

Joe


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