Two cyrus processes, one mail spool

Simon Matter simon.matter at invoca.ch
Thu Sep 17 02:49:41 EDT 2009


> Hi, is it safe to run two cyrus processes on the same filesystem/mail
> spool to provide scalability and HA?, in example, two servers
> accessing one clustered filesystem or NFS directory?.

Hi, NFS no, that doesn't seem to work even on NFSv4. At least no one has
confirmed it to work IIRC.
With a clustered filesystem it should work, but make sure you don't run
Berkeley DB backends, run it with skiplist instead.

Regards,
Simon



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