[Imap-use] replication

[Mark Crispin]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Joel Reicher wrote:
> Since IMAP is a NAS solution, you should think of implementing failover
> for an IMAP server the same way you would think of implementing it for
> an NFS server. Whatever measures you wouldn't bother with for an
> NFS server, don't bother with for an IMAP server, for all the same
> reasons.

I never thought of IMAP as a NAS before, but you're right that it is. 
Thank you for a very clever analysis.

FWIW, UW gave up on SAN for IMAP due to cost.

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