-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:25:46 -0600 > Von: Eric Rostetter <rostet...@mail.utexas.edu> > An: dovecot@dovecot.org > Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] GlusterFs - Any new progress reports?
> Quoting Ed W <li...@wildgooses.com>: > > > Anyone had success using some other clustered/HA filestore with > > dovecot who can share their experience? (OCFS/GFS over DRBD, etc?) > > GFS2 over DRBD in an active-active setup works fine IMHO. Not perfect, > but it was cheap and works well... Let's me reboot machines with > "no downtime" which was one of my main goals when implementing it... > > > My interest is more in bootstrapping a more highly available system > > from lower quality (commodity) components than very high end use > > GFS+DRBD should fit the bill... You need several nics and cables, > but they are dirt cheap... Just 2 machines with the same disk setup, > and a handful of nics and cables, and you are off and running... > Can you easy scale that GFS2+DRBD to have more then just 2 nodes? Is it possible to aggregate the speed when using many nodes? Can all the nodes at the same time be active or is one node always the master and the other a hot spare that kicks in when the master is down? > > Thanks > > > > Ed W > > -- > Eric Rostetter > The Department of Physics > The University of Texas at Austin > > Go Longhorns! -- Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser
