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Brian Kroth wrote: |
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> Hello all, |
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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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-Kevin |
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