on 05/27/2004 06:30 PM, tachu at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > WOuld the following scenario be possible > I currently have about 1.2 Tb of data that i need to transform into > mysql and be able to server a very high amount of pages from a > discussion board. would i be able to place the mysql/data directory in a > main server with huge storage and then have several mysql server > instances running on different machines accessing the same /mysql/data > directory? would there be any limitations. i need to be able to server > about 200/sec on each server and have about 40 servers. basically my > ideas is to have several mysql servers running but one main data > repository. any help is appreciated
Not speaking at all from experience here, so these are just thoughts. I think you want to basically create a network disk for your storage, then point mysql to that disk to read the datbases. I see no real trouble with this at all, it is pretty standard to change the location of your data directory. I do see some issues, first, how will you load balance the mysql servers, every time a page is loaded, you will have to find one of 40 servers to request that data, as long as you have this worked out, it should be fine as well. The main problem I can see is that if this is anything other than a read-only environment, I would not trust it, the second more than one server tries to write to the central databases, I can see it freaking out somewhat. I think you need to look into load balancing and replication to achieve what you are after. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 http://www.newgeo.com Fax: 313.557.5052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novato, CA U.S.A. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
