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Yeah, thanks everyone for your responses. I'll most likely be testing a |
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bunch of these in the coming weeks and months to find the one I think |
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works the best. I'll try and post some results when I'm done. So far |
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just from the reading I think my best bets are Lustre, GFS, and OCFS2. |
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The cluster list also had some mention about GlusterFS that I'm curious |
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about. |
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Also, I did some more research on the MySQL end of things and have |
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decided that replication is the way to go. Thanks Hanni for that nice |
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graphic. |
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Brian |
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Kevin wrote: |
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> Brian Kroth wrote: |
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>> Hello all, |
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>> |
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>> I currently manage about 40 Window, OSX, and Hardened Gentoo servers. I |
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>> will soon have 12 P4 servers that were previously used as video encoders |
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>> free as well as an Apple XRaid. With all this spare hardware I thought |
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>> I'd research setting up a cluster of servers running Apache for load |
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>> balancing and high availability. I'm also looking into a MySQL cluster, |
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>> but that wouldn't require a shared filesystem. I'm wondering if anyone |
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>> has done something like this before and in particular knows a good |
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>> filesystem to use so that each of the servers can access and potentially |
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>> write to the same storage array. I've accomplished the same thing with |
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>> XServes running OSX, but they like to charge you a pretty penny for the |
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>> XSan software that allows this which I thought I'd try to avoid if |
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>> possible. So far I've seen only GFS, but haven't gotten much reading |
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>> done on it yet. Any other tips or insights would be appreciated as well. |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Brian |
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> You may want to consider OpenAFS: http://www.openafs.org/ |
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> Not really sure if this is what you're after or not, but since there have |
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> been several ideas mentioned in this thread in response to your post |
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> already, I thought I'd mention it in case you're not aware of it. |
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> HTH. |
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> |
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> -Kevin |
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