> My manager asked me if I could a mirror copy of our > /var/mail on another system, just in case the system > went down. He suggested that Windows has DFS > (Distributed File System) and I said I would look > into it. > > Over the weekend I thought of CacheFS which comes > will solaris which allows you to have a local copy of > a network drive, so that it can improve the "NFS > server performance and scalability by reducing server > and network load.". My joy was short lived when I > relaises that when the server goes down your local > copy of that NFS is not accessable. > > I don't see why CacheFS can not work in this > situation, so that if there is a local version of the > file use it and not just hang....... > > Any thoughts or has any one got a good > Solaris/OpenSolaris solution to my problem.
What you need is: - an FC switch (not a must if you use e.g. an A5200) - FC storage - min. two systems - SVM configured to use disksets - SunPlex clustering SW (free) - an NFS cluster config. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
