Cyrus with a NFS storage. random DBERROR

[Michael Menge]

Hi,

Cyrus has 2 problems with NFS.

1. Cyrus depends on filesystem locking. NFS-4 should have solved this problem
but i have not tested it.

2. BerkleyDB uses shared Memory which does not work accros multiple servers.

You can try to convert all your databases to skipplist and run with  
NFS-4 and proper filesystemlocking.

But as far as i know only skiplist and GFS is tested in a setup like yours.
Have a look at the threads on Cyrus and Cluster Filesystem and Cyrus HA.

Some time ago i wrote a summery of the infos in these threads, and  
wanted to add it to the Wiki, but had no sucsess so far.

Regards

    Michael

Quoting ram <ram at netcore.co.in>:

> I testing cyrus with a NFS storage by two *identical* cyrus + postfix
> servers
>
> Both /var/spool/imap and /var/imap are mounted by both servers ( the
> socket directory is moved out of the mount)
>
> Everything seems working fine but I find sometimes dupelim doesnt work.
> I tried to  debug , I get errrors like these in my maillog
>
> DBERROR: skiplist recovery /var/imap/deliver.db: ADD at E2C8 exists
>
> What could be the reason ?
>
> I am using cyrus-imapd 2.3.7 on centos 4.4  on both servers , with a
> NetAPP box for storage
>
> Thanks
> Ram
>
>
>
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