Thomas,
On 10/22/09 1:29 AM, "Thomas Hummel" wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:39:22AM -0700, Brandon Davidson wrote:
>> As a contrasting data point, we run NFS + random redirects with almost no
>> problems.
>
> Thanks for your answer as well.
>
> What mailbox format are you using ?
We swit
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:39:22AM -0700, Brandon Davidson wrote:
> As a contrasting data point, we run NFS + random redirects with almost no
> problems.
Thanks for your answer as well.
What mailbox format are you using ?
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:59:50PM +0100, Guy wrote:
> Our current setup uses two NFS mounts accessed simultaneously by two
> servers.
[...]
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Are you using mbox, dbox or maildir ?
What % of IMAP and POP3 clients ?
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Thomas Hummel | Institut Pasteur
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On 10/21/09 8:59 AM, "Guy" wrote:
> Our current setup uses two NFS mounts accessed simultaneously by two
> servers. Our load balancing tries to keep a user on the same server whenever
> possible. Initially we just had roundrobin load balancing which led to index
> corruption.
> The problems we've
2009/10/21 Timo Sirainen
> On Oct 20, 2009, at 4:47 AM, Thomas Hummel wrote:
>
> If you do it, you'll most likely see some random index related errors.
>>>
>>
>> But are index related errors recoverable (does dovecot notice and fix it
>> dynamically ?) or will they cause client-side corruption ?
On Oct 20, 2009, at 4:47 AM, Thomas Hummel wrote:
If you do it, you'll most likely see some random index related
errors.
But are index related errors recoverable (does dovecot notice and
fix it
dynamically ?) or will they cause client-side corruption ?
How bad would that corruption be ? (
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:47:25AM +0200, Thomas Hummel wrote:
> > Actual mail content should be safe.
So you seem to say that indexes files would probably get "corrupted" but that
clients wouldn't notice it ?
I'm trying to figure out how to use imap-test test script-ing to test this.
Any sugge
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:42:08PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Thanks for the answers Timo,
I understand random redirect is not a good idea but I'm trying to evaluate the
damage it can do.
> If you do it, you'll most likely see some random index related errors.
But are index related errors reco
On Oct 19, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Thomas Hummel wrote:
Dovecot documentation states that the "random redirects to multiple
servers"
NFS solution is to be avoided and I'm investigation the actual risks
of it and
a way to put it to test.
If you do it, you'll most likely see some random index rela
Hello,
Dovecot documentation states that the "random redirects to multiple servers"
NFS solution is to be avoided and I'm investigation the actual risks of it and
a way to put it to test.
I'm running dovecot-1.2.6 with Maildir (indexes, mailboxes and control files
are all on NFS) and I'm using pr
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