Distributed File Systems

[Simon Loader]

On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:33, David Lang wrote:
> another option to consider.
> 
> I have heard of people hacking cyrus to store it's data in a SQL database
> instead of a raw filesystem. if you do this you can then invoke the full
> set of SQL replication capabilities (including better transaction
> support then you can get in a filesystem).
> 
>

This is roughly how a product I worked on once (www.herculeez.com)
worked although not using based on cyrus. It had custom built
smtp/pop/imap. I thought at the time in many ways it would be 
trivial to convert cyrus into working in the same manor.

(I have drawings in my head but nothing working yet).


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Simon Loader