[Linux-HA] High availability, fast, fileservers

[David Lang]

you may want to take a look at the cyrus mail server software, they have a 
cluster layer (called Murder) that will effectivly spread things across a 
large number of servers. no need for NFS (and it's inherent locking 
problems)

David Lang


On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, John R.Shearer wrote:

> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:40:46 -0800
> From: John R.Shearer <john at puremail.com>
> Reply-To: General Linux-HA mailing list <linux-ha at lists.linux-ha.org>
> To: Jeff Tucker <linux-ha at lists.linux-ha.org>
> Subject: [Linux-HA] High availability, fast, fileservers
> 
> Jeff:
>
> I was reading a thread you started almost exactly a year ago on the Linux 
> High Availability mailing list 
> <http://lists.community.tummy.com/pipermail/linux-ha/2004-March/010308.html>. 
> You were running a large Email service environment and wanted scalability and 
> high availability.  The issues discussed in the thread are exactly the issues 
> I am grappling with.  I wanted to know how your system turned out.
>
> I am developing the specifications for a 100,000 mailbox Email cluster where 
> each user receives 1 GB of space (100 TB total capacity).  It was my 
> intention to use 14 NFS servers, each with a belly full (24) of 400 GB SATA 
> disks divided among 2 SATA controllers and RAID 5'd, and use DRBD to mirror 
> them to another 14 NFS servers.  Each of my 6 or so mail and web servers 
> would then NFS mount all 28 NFS shares from the 14 active NFS servers.
>
> What did you end up using for your environment?  What is your current 
> capacity?  Also, for my estimates, what are the averages I can expect for A) 
> number of messages received per mailbox per day, and B) the average size of 
> an Email message.
>
> Thanks for your time.  - John R. S.
>
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