From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 4:37: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from claven.hwi.buffalo.edu (claven.hwi.buffalo.edu [128.205.85.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CEDC37B407 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 04:37:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2203 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2001 11:37:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO hwi.buffalo.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Sep 2001 11:37:00 -0000 Received: from 141.149.144.170 (SquirrelMail authenticated user rcollins) by claven.hwi.buffalo.edu with HTTP; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 07:37:00 +0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1868.141.149.144.170.1000640220.squirrel@claven.hwi.buffalo.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 07:37:00 +0400 (EDT) Subject: redundant mail servers From: To: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.1.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm looking to implement redundant mail servers. Load balancing would be *very nice* considering the cost of the hardware, but redundancy is the requirement. I would like to use freebsd, of course, but things are looking pretty grim. Hopefully someone on the list can help me out. I have only found one way to do this on freebsd and that is to use an application solution such as polyserve's understudy. $3000 is a hunk of change though, and they don't support anything past 4.1-RELEASE. Who knows what they are going to support tomorrow, so I'm not too keen on that idea. The route that I would really like to take a shot at is to hook two freebsd machines up to a multi-host scsi enclosure and use sistina's gfs for the filesystem. The only problem there is gfs hasn't been ported to freebsd yet. They have been promising a port for several years now, but one still hasn't appeared. Anyone have any other ideas? -rcollins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message