Brian, Have you seen this project: http://www.pvfs.org/
Multi-disk/multi-server storage, sounds like what you're wanting. If found it when hunting for a package to help me build something like the Isilon (sp?) systems. /djb > G'day Brian, > > I've played around with OCFS2 and AoE in combination with Xen and they > seem to work alright. > > I did have to increase the hearbeat timout for OCFS2 because all the > machines would think the SAN went offline when there was _heavy_ load. > Works a treat now that the timeout has been increased though. > > Cheers, > > Brad > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:59:28 -0600 > Brian Kroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I currently manage about 40 Window, OSX, and Hardened Gentoo >> servers. I will soon have 12 P4 servers that were previously used as >> video encoders free as well as an Apple XRaid. With all this spare >> hardware I thought I'd research setting up a cluster of servers >> running Apache for load balancing and high availability. I'm also >> looking into a MySQL cluster, but that wouldn't require a shared >> filesystem. I'm wondering if anyone has done something like this >> before and in particular knows a good filesystem to use so that each >> of the servers can access and potentially write to the same storage >> array. I've accomplished the same thing with XServes running OSX, >> but they like to charge you a pretty penny for the XSan software that >> allows this which I thought I'd try to avoid if possible. So far >> I've seen only GFS, but haven't gotten much reading done on it yet. >> Any other tips or insights would be appreciated as well. >> >> Thanks, >> Brian > -- > gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org mailing list