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<p>I was under the impression that Cyrus Murder handled the
horizontal scale out of mailboxes across multiple servers.</p>
<p>I have not yet needed to scale up to the point where this would
be an issue but I would love to know what the answer would be.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/12/2016 10:14 AM, Bron Gondwana
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<pre wrap="">Funny you should ask :)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://asg.andrew.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.cyrus-devel&msg=4939">http://asg.andrew.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.cyrus-devel&msg=4939</a>
I definitely have plans of allowing everything to be written back in a reliable way so that losing an IMAP server is guaranteed(within the bounds of software reliability and all the parts following their contracts) to not lose anything which has been acknowledged back to the user!
Bron.
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016, at 01:18, Sebastian Hagedorn via Info-cyrus wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
our systems guys keep telling us that we are doing things in an
old-fashioned way and should get with the program.
We are currently using a single Cyrus server with roughly 13 TB of storage
provided by a SAN. We used to have a Red Hat High Availability cluster, but
we traded that in for a VMWare HA setup earlier this year. So far we have
scaled up. We have added processors, RAM and storage to that single
(virtual) machine whenever necessary.
According to our systems people, we should scale out instead, the way
Exchange 2013 and Dovecot Pro apparently do. The idea, as I understand it,
is to have multiple backends that all provide access to the same mailboxes.
It should be possible to add and remove backends completely transparently.
Dovecot Pro seems to realize that by storing all mails in local caches
backed by shared object storage (e.g. Ceph), in conjunction with Dovecot
Director.
Now I'm trying to understand if anything like that is on the roadmap for
Cyrus. I see that Cyrus 3.0 (experimentally) supports object storage, but
only for archive partitions. Are there plans for Cyrus 3.1 or later to add
support for regular mail partitions as well?
Personally I'm stil happy with our setup, but I'm told that future storage
hardware won't easily support what we're doing anymore. I'm aware that both
clustering and replication are already possible with Cyrus, but my
understanding is that you can't trivially and automatically switch to a
replicated backend if one goes down. You also need to replicate all
messages to each new backend you introduce, which isn't quite what our
systems people would like to have.
Thanks
Sebastian
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