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Date:      Sun, 16 Sep 2001 07:37:00 +0400 (EDT)
From:      <rcollins@hwi.buffalo.edu>
To:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   redundant mail servers
Message-ID:  <1868.141.149.144.170.1000640220.squirrel@claven.hwi.buffalo.edu>

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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


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