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From: rashid@rk.ios.com (Rashid Karimov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: NFS question( sharing /var/mail and/or /usr/spool/news).
Date: 18 Feb 1996 16:08:49 GMT
Organization: Internet Online Services
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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
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.
Is the idea usable at all for this amount of users ???
Is NIS+ of any use with this amount of accounts ?
Any ther 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 ?
Rashid
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