[H-GEN] any ideas for cluster filesystem solution ?

[Martin Pool]

On 10 Nov 2000, Eric HORNSBY <e.hornsby at mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote:

> > Why not just have two separate filesystems and rsync onto both?  If
> > the pages are purely read-only I would think this would work fine.
> > 
> 
> Well yes...that's what I did first - but I figured since the data was
> already RAID 5 protected such duplication was basically a waste of drive
> space

You can give me the drives, then. ;-)

RAID 5 will help with read performance (if that's a problem), and let
you cope with drive failures without needing to do server failover,
which on any system is a risk best avoided.

> I would also really like both web servers to be able to share a common log
> - but maybe I need to think about building a log server ?

You might use piped logs to stream the data out across the network.
But the smallest performance hit will likely come from each server
writing to its own log disk, and then collating them during
post-processing.

This is all nice and simple, anyhow -- perhaps not enough for your
requirements?

-- 
Martin Pool, Linuxcare, Inc.
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