Need advice on building a Cyrus IMAP cluster

[Michael Sims]

Hi Dave,

Dave McMurtrie wrote:
> As of Cyrus 2.3, the code supports the notion of application-level
> replication.  It's near real-time replication of all the application
> data, but one copy of the data isn't live.  This is more of an
> active/passive solution, since you have to do something to make cyrus
> aware of the 2nd copy of the data if you suffer some type of failure
> of
> the first copy.

Quick question on this.  If I setup an active/passive cluster and put the
mail spool AND all of the application data on a SAN that both nodes have
access to (not simultaneously, of course), doesn't that bypass the need for
using "mupdate_config: replicated"?  Thanks...

Michael Sims