> 
> I don't think samba gives the proper filesystem semantics 
> that would be needed for this to happen.
Thanks!

> 
> > > The other option though, is that
> > > vpopmail does support a master/slave setup where any writable 
> > > queries go to server X while readable ones are done locally for 
> > > performance.  This is a better scenario than two way replication 
> > > since you don't run the risk of replication breakage.
> > 
> > [that] option sounds much better - If a writable query is 
> performed, I 
> > assume I must have master/slave configured (Master 
> obviously being the 
> > "writable" mysql server, which would then update all the slaves?)
> 
> right.  We have several of those types of installations up 
> and running. 
> Works pretty well.

Ok - What happens if the master write server is unavailable...does
vpopmail start writing to local "read" database?

Regards,
MB

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