Funding Cyrus High Availability

Derrick J Brashear shadow at andrew.cmu.edu
Sat Sep 18 21:20:24 EDT 2004


On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Ken Murchison wrote:

>> I'm not sure that IMAP is ameniable to active-active: the prevalence of 
>> UIDs in the protocol means that it would be very hard to resolve the 
>> inconsistencies that would occur if a pair of machines ever lost touch.
>
> Right, I was assuming that active-passive is what we would probably get, I 
> was just taking the pulse of the community.

In the past I have attempted to steer things internally at work toward 
active-active solutions, but I think expecting that here will result in an 
unrealistically complex solution to deploy, if implemented.
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