Re: [SLUG] Asynchronous Distributed Filesystem

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:46:35PM +1100, Joel Heenan wrote: > Hi, > [snip] > > Sorry I didn't mean to say differences I meant to say distances. The > DR site is a good 20km away. I have not researched this thoroughly but > it was my understanding that GFS was designed for fibre connected > volum

Re: [SLUG] Asynchronous Distributed Filesystem

2008-01-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008, Joel Heenan wrote: > Hi, > > In response to Adrian I'm looking for a solution that will work well under > RHEL. I hate to say it, but you bought RHEL, so ask Redhat. Thats part of the benefit of buying a product with support - you can ask their engineers what will "work we

Re: [SLUG] Asynchronous Distributed Filesystem

2008-01-15 Thread Joel Heenan
Hi, In response to Adrian I'm looking for a solution that will work well under RHEL. Thanks for the suggestions thus far I'll check them out now. Comments below On 1/16/08, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:15:51PM +1100, Joel Heenan wrote: > > SLUG, > > > > We h

Re: [SLUG] Asynchronous Distributed Filesystem

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:15:51PM +1100, Joel Heenan wrote: > SLUG, > > We have a requirement in a new project to have a distributed > filesystem. Files are written to one of 32 * 200MB volumes and we need > to keep them in sync with a DR site. Rsync, I believe, will be just > too slow to replica

Re: [SLUG] Asynchronous Distributed Filesystem

2008-01-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
Under Linux? DRDB? http://www.linux-ha.org/DRDB/ On Wed, Jan 16, 2008, Joel Heenan wrote: > SLUG, > > We have a requirement in a new project to have a distributed > filesystem. Files are written to one of 32 * 200MB volumes and we need > to keep them in sync with a DR site. Rsync, I believe, wil

[SLUG] Asynchronous Distributed Filesystem

2008-01-15 Thread Joel Heenan
SLUG, We have a requirement in a new project to have a distributed filesystem. Files are written to one of 32 * 200MB volumes and we need to keep them in sync with a DR site. Rsync, I believe, will be just too slow to replicate changes - unless there is some way to make the rsync daemon hook into