On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>You are starting to believe Sun's marketing material. The Sun
>filesystem (straight system V UFS) is pretty lousy. You may improve
>things significantly by moving to VxFS or similar (at a cost of say 3K
>pounds per processor), but it really needs the application end to be
>designed for that sort of scaling.
From my own experiance, and from what I've seen and heard, especially as
far as their hardware goes... I would have to say yes...
>My own prefered solution for huge mail systems (ISP class - Enterprise
>might have rather different characteristics), is to split the functions
>down:-
Another way which I actually thought about that might also be good to take
load of mail servers...
IN MX 10 mail.somedomain.com
mail A x.x.x.x
A x.x.x.x
A x.x.x.x
etc etc etc ? This is allowed in DNS, that I am sure about, but will it be
accepted as far as MX records go?
Regards
Chris Knipe
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