Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread Ed Robbins
On 2/28/12 4:11 PM, Mark Komarinski wrote: Sorry for top posting (I'm mobile). OCFS2 and GFS allow for active/active DRBD. I tried using each and they wound up requiring more knowledge of crm and pacemaker than I was ready for. I had each working on two different systems but it was unreliab

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Komarinski
Sorry for top posting (I'm mobile). OCFS2 and GFS allow for active/active DRBD. I tried using each and they wound up requiring more knowledge of crm and pacemaker than I was ready for. I had each working on two different systems but it was unreliable - if you knew more about pacemaker you mig

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
> (DRBD>LVM>iSCSI>Heartbeat) Heh. I suspect that will somehow look familiar to Mr. Lussier... ;-> He did indicate a wish to have an Active/Active rig but I believe that approach only allows Active/Standby, yes? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhl

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread Alan Johnson
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > There *are* distributed filesystems -- btrfs has ceph, which has come a > long, > long way. Lustre and Gluster also come to mind. Caveat: I've not used > these, > I worked with the good folks at Gluster at my last job, fall of 2009. They

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread David Miller
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > There *are* distributed filesystems -- btrfs has ceph, which has come a > long, > long way. Lustre and Gluster also come to mind. Caveat: I've not used > these, > but I know folks who have, and I believe they'd fit your bill. > > -Ken >

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread David Miller
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Kenny Lussier wrote: > Hi All, > > I am looking for new ideas on how to replicate file systems. I have a need > for redundant ftp servers, which could either be active/standby or > active/active, as there is a load balancer in front of them. Currently, we > period

Re: replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
There *are* distributed filesystems -- btrfs has ceph, which has come a long, long way. Lustre and Gluster also come to mind. Caveat: I've not used these, but I know folks who have, and I believe they'd fit your bill. -Ken On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:44:54 -0500 Kenny Lussier wrote Hi All, I am

replicated file system?

2012-02-28 Thread Kenny Lussier
Hi All, I am looking for new ideas on how to replicate file systems. I have a need for redundant ftp servers, which could either be active/standby or active/active, as there is a load balancer in front of them. Currently, we periodically rsync the directory over to the standby system. What I would