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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 <[email protected]> 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, -- Muljawan Hendrianto Internet Consultant Siemens Business Services Pte. Ltd. Siemens IT Services E-Business Operations 2 Kallang Sector, Singapore 349277 Tel : +65 740 7554 Fax : +65 740 7497 Mobile : +65 9824 4688
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