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

[Atif Ghaffar <atif@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Joseph Mack <mack@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Atif Ghaffar wrote:
> 

> 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 actual /var/spool/imap is on the backend server.
Its accessing it from a raid natively.

Then this server is exporting it to frontend nodes.

The frontend nodes are mounting it read only.



> 
> > 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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> Joseph Mack mack@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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