Cyrus Server Migration

[Tarjei Huse]

Hi,

>I tried to extract some of the patches from different places and put
>them into my RPMs. Unfortunately I'm not sure I didn't miss one.
>
Would it be possible to get the patches into the source soon? I would be 
very happy to maybe have a commandline sw --with-linux or something for 
the patches.

>I didn't have any db related problem on RedHat with db3 and db4. Of
>course, the RPMs are using skiplist for mailboxes.db per default, as Rob
>suggested.
>
>I can also suggest XFS as the FS of choice. The only problem is that it
>is not so well supported by Linux distributions.
>
Consider using the WOLK (wolk.sf.net) kernelpatches. They got excelent 
support for xfs as well as host of other things (for example grsecurity)

Tarjei


>
>Simon
>
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>>>2.  db3 or db4?  The previous server we have has some of the famous
>>>locker problems and other db4 problems (we believe).  Rob, maybe you can
>>>bless the "official" db version to use. I am fine using db4, provided
>>>that people are successfully using it in production.
>>>      
>>>
>>Well, in my experience, db4 gives you nothing over (a very well patched and
>>stabilized) db3.2.  So, I will continue to ship cyrus linked against
>>Debian's db3.2 for a while more.  So far, I have had exactly zero problems
>>with db 3.2.9 in Debian...
>>
>>--
>>  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
>>  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
>>  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
>>  Henrique Holschuh
>>    
>>