Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 11:20:39 -0500 (EST) From: Rashid Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Some SERIOUS NFS usage - advice needed Message-ID: <199602181620.LAA05842@rk.ios.com>
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Hi there folx,
We have this idea here of putting online multiple
mail servers working off single NFS mounted partition.
It's about 9Gb+ of /var/mail shared between 3-4 hosts
( we'll probably do round-robin DNS for them or will
just have MX with same priorities to redistribute
the load evenly).
So the Big Question is: will it WORK ???
Will it be fast enough ( the thing should serve ~20.000 - 50.000
active e-mail accounts), will there be problems with locking
mail-boxes for delivery and reading , what's gonna happen
to the network , it there a sense in using 100Mb Ethernet,
how stable is NFS code ?
Is the idea usable at all for this amount of users ???
Is NIS+ of any use with this amount of accounts ?
Any other newtworked file system to be used instead of NFS :)) ?
If the thing will work, may be we will do the same with news
system.
Any expirience with things like that ?
Does FreeBD support any of them RAID arrays ? Or the only way is
to get one in H/W implementation ?
Rashid
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