From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 29 23:18:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mip.co.za (puck.mip.co.za [209.212.106.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4298037B419 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:18:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from patrick (patrick.mip.co.za [10.3.13.181]) by mip.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA83872; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:16:54 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "Chris Fedde" Cc: Subject: RE: Load balancing stuff (mainly samba) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:20:45 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200111300430.fAU4UxN35927@fedde.littleton.co.us> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal 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 > Take a look at coda. It uses a scheme of local cacheing and > replication to present a common file hierarchy over a potentialy > large number of servers. IIRC samba can share a coda filesystem. > This looks interesting! I have been asked to set up a mail server with a hot backup which could take over should the first server fail. Does anyone have any "real-world" experience using coda for this type of problem? Does coda even fit this problem? It is described as a replicated network file system. That tells me that data would be kept safe by replication, but there may still be a single point of failure, namely the mail server itself which is simply making use of the file system. Any comments? Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message