Wesley Darlington wrote:
>
> Hi Adrian,
>
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 12:07:19PM +0200, Adrian Turcu wrote:
> > I have this problem only when I use what it's called "DRBD" device.
> > This device is like NBD and RAID-1 (mirroring) if it sounds you familiar.
> >
> > Well, when I mount this device, everything looks fine until qmail try to
> > do something with its queue, because when I mount local device (hdd) and run
> > the same configuration qmail works fine (without errors and fast deliveries).
> >
> > It could be related to this kind of device (DRBD) ? If so, why ?
> > What is the procedure of qmail server when try to queue ? It is
> > a special procedure (I found somewhere in docs, that qmail identify
> > messages using references on disk - inodes) ?
>
> Ah yes, DRBD. I don't think qmail much likes (*) having its queue on
> *anything* that might be shared with another qmail instance. Keep
> your qmail queue on a local disk and all should be well.
>
> Wesley.
>
> (*) That is to say that qmail just Does Not Work unless it has sole
> access to its own queue. :-)
Well, I never intended to use the same queue for two instances of qmail.
I am using DRBD for qmail server into a fail-over configuration:
when the master is down THAN the slave will start its instance of qmail
and vice versa. Never both.
Its the same for qmail like shared queue for two instances ?
Thank you,
Adrian Turcu
System Administrator
Computers Department
Romanian Railway Company
Constanta Region
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