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

[Craig ARMOUR]

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> 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.

server failover is a risk?  Single servers because you have raid5 is all
good and well, but there is reasons for doing server failover, such as
hardware and software upgrades and maitenance.  It's all good and well
haveing rocksolid storage when your network card fails! 

> 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.

I believe I had suggest something very similar 

( ssh user at box1 ' cat httpd.log ' ; ssh user at box2 ' cat httpd.log ) | sort
> newhttpd.log ??? 

Cheers
Craig


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