On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 10:29:30AM +0100, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> At 11:16 1/31/00 -0800, siberian wrote:
> >My question is : Has anyone experienced any 'gotchas' in putting perl code
> >that modperl handlers use on a Network Attached file server like a network
> >appliance box ( www.netapp.com )? I am assuming that there are no real
> >issues but before i go blow a ton of cash on this thing I wanted to be
> >sure that no one had found a problem.
>
> We have been using such a setup for over 2 years now. The only real issue
> we've found is not so much with mod_perl itself, but with MySQL. If you
> put your databases on the NetApp, either have a seperate central database
> server, or make damn sure you do not use the same database from two
> different front-end servers. We've seen database corruption that way
> (using Linux front-end servers with NFS 2).
The default linux MySQL has --skip-locking enabled by default so having
two database servers access the same database tables would be very bad
regardless of where the files lived.
> With regards to fsck on large file systems: we've heard one horror stories
> about that as well (with Xs4all here in Amsterdam). I recall having read
> that they fixed the problem with the fsck taking very long on large
> file-systems with the latest OnTap release.
That's good news. Thanks.
Tim.
