Re: Scalable Mail solution with NAS

[Muljawan Hendrianto <muljawan.hendrianto () siemens com sg>]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:55:08AM +1300, Simon Lyall wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, J.D. Falk wrote:
> > On 01/31/01, Mike Johnson <mike.johnson () isunnetworks com> wrote:
> >
> > > I am wondering if this belongs on a networks list, though...
> >
> >     There's the isp-emailservers list (at isp-emailservers.com,
> >     even), but the clues are few and far between.  It'd be nice
> >     if some actual content (as opposed to "please help me I've
> >     never used the Internet before and now I'm an ISP" questions)
> >     could show up there, though.
>
> Earthlink have a little paper here:
>
> http://www.earthlink.com/about/papers/mailarch.html
>
> and I half remember seeing a couple of other papers somewhere else (try
> LISA archives under usenix.org).
>
> The system we use is based on a few ideas from this paper. Once you start
> splitting between multiple servers it's pretty easy to get something
> that'll scale to over a million mailboxes.

What about using clustered servers with SAN, I think this is also possible.
For example Legato has a cluster product which can also support SAN.

Is there any security consideration not to use NAS which is based on NFS ?

regards,

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