High availability ... again

[John C. Amodeo]

I would be very interested to know if anyone is using a Cyrus cluster
connected to a SAN using a cluster file system.  Would Cyrus die if two
servers were trying to access the same mailstore / db files?

Norman Zhang wrote:

>>> On a similar note, RedHat have apparently bought Sistina, and GPLed 
>>> GFS.  This is great news for HA under Linux, IMHO.  I will be 
>>> testing it soon.
>>
>>
>> Well, on their site is it listed as "open source", but it is not on 
>> sources.redhat.com (where LVM2 and device-mapper landed when they 
>> bought Sistina). In addition, it appears to only be available as part 
>> of RHEL, which is quite expensive.
>
>
> I think you can get it here, http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/gfs/
>
> Norman
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