[Dovecot] Re: Dovecot servers / SAN

[Mustafa A. Hashmi]

On 6/19/06, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:43:26PM +1000, Dean Manners wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >                     Wondering if anyone out there has any input on running
> > Dovecot with SAN storage.  Its coming to the time where we need to run load
> > balanced servers, and past experiences steer us away from a NAS.  Tips /
> > pitfalls ?
>
> It probably depends more on the filesystem you're going to pave over
> your SAN. I had a test setup with three nodes over GFS (which from
> dovecot's POV is simply a local POSIX compliant fs) for a couple of
> weeks and it worked fine. But for other reasons it never went into
> production, it was only stressed under lab conditions.

We ran it with a Lustre backend recently for test purposes. Though the
solution worked well, didn't make sense given Lustre's design.

Axel: why did you move away from GFS? Any particular reason?

Regards,
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Mustafa A. Hashmi
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