Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 10:11:00AM +1100, John Ferlito wrote: > Keeping in mind I've never done this so no idea how well it works. I'd > say a combination of > > Global File System - http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/gfs/ I think the requirements where for no STOMITH and GFS uses that in both inca

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread John Ferlito
Keeping in mind I've never done this so no idea how well it works. I'd say a combination of Global File System - http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/gfs/ and Global Network Block Device - http://sourceware.org/cluster/gnbd/ should do the trick, this document explains how http://sources.redhat.com/c

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:52:55AM +1100, Crossfire wrote: > I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. > > What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole > filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and strictly 2 nodes) > without STO

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Crossfire
Dave Kempe wrote: Crossfire wrote: I want to be able to set it up so /home (and maybe other filesystems) are replicated from one to the other, in both directions, in real time so they can run in an all-hot redundant cluster. The environment should be mostly read-oriented, so I can live with

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Dave Kempe
Dave Kempe wrote: I was thinking just yesterday some sort of fuse filesystem is what we need :) dave haven't tried it, but this is fuse http://www.furquim.org/chironfs/ dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.a

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Crossfire
Mick Pollard wrote: On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:52:55 +1100 Crossfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and stri

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Dave Kempe
Crossfire wrote: I want to be able to set it up so /home (and maybe other filesystems) are replicated from one to the other, in both directions, in real time so they can run in an all-hot redundant cluster. The environment should be mostly read-oriented, so I can live with write-latent soluti

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Mick Pollard
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:52:55 +1100 Crossfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. > > What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole > filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and strictly 2 nodes)

[SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Crossfire
I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and strictly 2 nodes) without STOMITH[1]. The scenario is I have two identical systems with local (s