Re: [gentoo-cluster] High-Availability Howto for Gentoo

[Hanni Ali]

Ok,

I suggest we try to put the documentation together on gentoo-wiki.com I've
always found this site an excellent resource.

There are already two stubs which I feel we should build on and kyron has
compiled an excellent list of programs if you follow the links.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Index:HOWTO#Build_a_Gentoo_High_Performance_Cluster

I suggest we start Build a Gentoo High Availability Cluster.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/cluster/

This is the gentoo cluster page and we only have three How To's All of which
have floors I've kept tabs on problems I've run into with the HPC howto and
distcc howto. I feel we should keep openMosix separate and have a completely
separate set of Howto's for that.

My clusters are generally diskless nodes so I suggest we try to incorporate
this howto into the gentoo-wiki

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml

Though this also has it's fair share of difficulties.

I'm prepared to share a certain amount of my work on this. It would be nice
to make this documentation easily understandable for all and I'm always up
for people adding where they run into problems and WHY into these sort of
documents.

I'm looking carefully at HA diskless nodes and ways in which to ensure
redundancy if the master node fails. Suggestions on this would be welcomed.

How many people would be interested in helping out with this. If you've read
this far it must be because it's a Friday afternoon so anything can distract
you!

Cheers

Hanni




On 07/04/06, Bryan Stalcup <bryan@×××××××××.biz> wrote:
>
> i have a functioning high availability cluster with heartbeat, drbd
> and drbdlinks (highly recommend, wish it were in the gentoo packages
> repository).
>
> some of my work is documented (piecemeal) at http://bbix.biz/tavi,
> but i'd be happy to flesh it out more and answer any questions, give
> sample config files, etc.
>
> bryan
>
> On Apr 7, 2006, at 7:18 AM, Mathias Weigt wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> > Is there a special HA-Howto for Gentoo Linux anywhere?
> > I came across this japanese Document, but unfortunately I don't
> > understand a single world.
> > http://www.gentoo.gr.jp/jpdoc/failover.xml
> >
> > I want to setup a Gentoo-Server with DRBD and automatic failover
> > but all the available HOWTOs are not Gentoo-specific.
> >
> > I don't have any experience with HA and DRBD and a Document which
> > adresses Gentoo in this respect would be really appreciated.
> >
> > Mathias
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> >
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