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Well I am not 100% sure on the implementation..I am trying to get an
idea in my head about the best way to go about this. Right now we have
an IMAP server running WU-IMAP. This one machine is doing both IMAP and
SMTP. I plan to split these services up and smtp can be delt with by
another less powerful machine.
Users will also be using some sort of webmail (IMP/HORDE) to get their
mail when they are off site...other than that standard Eudora/Netscape
will be used for retrieval.
The real servers would need access to both the users home directories as
well as the /var/mail directory. I am not too familiar with the actual
locking problems...I understand the basics but I also hear that NFS V3
was supposed to fix some of the locking issues with V2...I also saw some
links to GFS,AFS,etc not too sure how they would work...also I thought
about samba and only found one post from last year where someone was
going to try it but there was no more info there. I am very willing to
take suggestions :-)
Thanks,
Shain
Joseph Mack wrote:
>
> Shain Miley wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I am new to the list and I was wondering if someone could either provide
> > a link or some details about the maturity of LVS
>
> LVS is in great shape :-)
>
> and the available
> > 'shared disk' options.
>
> it depends a little bit on how you're going to share the files
> (which you haven't told us about). If the
> NFS is just sharing files like is does anywhere else, then you'll
> only have the usual troubles (which you allude to).
>
> > I am planning on setting up an LVS IMAP cluster
>
> do you understand the single writer, many reader properties of LVS?
>
> One of the first things LVS was used for was for a mail server
> (by Ted Pavlic). He had to do a lot of thinking to get all the
> locking straight and unfortunately he never wrote it up for us.
> So unfortunately what you're (probably) about to do isn't a canned
> setup yet. It's also probably a little tricky and you're going
> to have to test it with single mail events and then run something
> hard against it to see if you loose test mails. Even loosing
> 1 mail in 1000 will annoy users (quite rightly), but will
> require some accurate testing.
>
> Can you describe more how you plan to do this (eg how the IMAP
> servers get their mail), how the clients get the mail from the
> IMAP servers, how the client send their mail out, where the LVS
> fits in? We're very good with free advice :-)
>
> I haven't setup an LVS mail server. How big a single machine is
> needed to handle your 500-700 people?
>
> Joe
>
> --
> Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
> contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center,
> mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA
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