Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
what kind of mail servers are you running, imap? mailspools or maildirs? or just pop? drbd 0.8 (which is not final yet) supports active/active i believe, but not the current 0.7 version. alec Duane Cox wrote: > I'm wanting to setup two mail servers in an active / active role, basically meaning both are working, operating, sharing the load. > > I have a layer-4 switch that I can use for the IP side of things, but I am looking for a solution for the data (mailboxes). > > I have 2 Dell Servers that each have 5 hard drives and 2 gigabit network cards. > > Here is what I would like to do, please tell me if it is possible, not possible, or just plain stupid. > > I would like to have a solution, so that if one server died, no user would notice, I would like to do this without a SAN or External > SCSI device. > > My Idea is to link the 2 servers via IP using a crossover cable and one NIC from each machine. Use the remaining NIC for Internet > inbout/outbound traffic. > Since each server has 5 drives, I would like to setup some sort of array that DRBD would manage and keep in sync. > > >From what I have read on the website, DRBD doesn't support write from both nodes. Has this been changed? I think I would need > write access from both nodes? If so, who is the author of DRBD? > > Thanks > Duane Cox > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > >