Re: Needs suggestion for redundant Storage

2006-04-12 Thread Michael Schuh
CARP can let you failover an IP address and ggated provides remote access to a physical disk device but the combination will not give you a fault tolerant server. One major problem is that you will lose the content of the cache when a system fails - this amounts to roughly the last 30

Re: Needs suggestion for redundant Storage

2006-04-11 Thread Michael Schuh
You probably can't replace defective hardware so fast that the users don't notice. They will probably also notice when a system crash garbles the filesystem. that was the reason why i would make a mirrored system with CARP and ggated... Based on your comments of low cost and massive

Re: Needs suggestion for redundant Storage

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2006-Apr-11 13:15:48 +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: You probably can't replace defective hardware so fast that the users don't notice. They will probably also notice when a system crash garbles the filesystem. that was the reason why i would make a mirrored system with CARP and

Re: Needs suggestion for redundant Storage

2006-04-10 Thread Michael Schuh
Hello Chuck, Hello @all, 2006/4/7, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Schuh wrote: Hi everyone, i need suggestions and hints about an redundant storage-system. My requirements are: a Storage that is available via Network, flexible in scalation, and must be redundant, and

Re: Needs suggestion for redundant Storage

2006-04-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2006-Apr-10 14:11:46 +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: so that i have sign a Solution with cheap HW, ok this cheap HW is not very stable and never so performant like the right Hardware, but if i use this solution, so i can relative fast replace defect items with new HW. You probably can't

Re: Needs suggestion for redundant Storage

2006-04-10 Thread Brian K. White
- Original Message - From: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Schuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 2:50 PM Subject: Re: Needs suggestion for redundant Storage On Mon, 2006-Apr-10 14:11:46 +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: so that i

Needs suggestion for redundant Storage

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Schuh
Hi everyone, i need suggestions and hints about an redundant storage-system. My requirements are: a Storage that is available via Network, flexible in scalation, and must be redundant, and cheap if possible My Own suggestion was this scenario: 2 boxes very cheap for ~300$ 2 or more

Re: Needs suggestion for redundant Storage

2006-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Michael Schuh wrote: Hi everyone, i need suggestions and hints about an redundant storage-system. My requirements are: a Storage that is available via Network, flexible in scalation, and must be redundant, and cheap if possible My Own suggestion was this scenario: 2 boxes very cheap for