Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 08:08:20AM +0100, Norman Maurer wrote: > i installed DRBD to mirror my MailServer (QMAIL). Now i think about, to > mirror the QMAILQUEUE too. So when the one MailServer crashes, i still > have the emails that were in the QMAILQUEUE. > > QMAIL uses Inodes for setting up the QUEUE. > > My question is : > > Use DRBD the same Inodes on the primary and secondary host ? > Or is it impossible to use DRBD to mirror the QMAILQUEUE? Since DRBD is a block level device, it is ignorant of the filesystem on top of it. It's providing an exact mirror of that filesystem, so the answer is "yes, the i-nodes should be the same on primary and secondary." -- Roy Bixler <rcb at press.uchicago.edu> The University of Chicago Press http://www.press.uchicago.edu