Cyrus IMAP and MySQL mailboxes (Building load-balancing cluster)

[Amos]

On 11/23/06, Janne Peltonen <janne.peltonen at helsinki.fi> wrote:
> You're completely correct, this is the kind of system I'm building and
> others have had in production use (see the thread on clusters, GFS and
> HA, for instance - begins at
> http://www.mail-archive.com/info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu/msg30675.html
> (couldn't open the official info-cyrus archive)). So you /can/ run Cyrus
> on multiple servers accessing the same mailboxes database. Just don't
> use BDB. Don't even compile it in.

It's a shame that apparently the only true HA/LB cluster appears to
have been done with Veritas cluster. Actually, we're hoping to get
away from VxFS/VxVM and use ZFS. Not that VxFS/VxVM are bad products,
but they can be a bear to manage.

Amos