[34256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scalable Mail solution with NAS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Muljawan Hendrianto)
Thu Feb 1 03:39:35 2001
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:37:28 +0800
From: Muljawan Hendrianto <muljawan.hendrianto@siemens.com.sg>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102011048050.20783-100000@boggle.ihug.co.nz>; from Simon Lyall on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:55:08AM +1300
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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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Muljawan Hendrianto
Internet Consultant
Siemens Business Services Pte. Ltd.
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