Re: [gentoo-cluster] High-Availability Howto for Gentoo

2006-04-11 Thread busby
You've found a starter on PostgreSQL clustering ?? I'd be most interested, are you sure you don't mean PostgreSQL replication with slony I am unaware of any clustering support for postgreSQL but must admit I haven't looked in over a year. Grtz Ramon I think am, these: PostgreSQL

Re: [gentoo-cluster] High-Availability Howto for Gentoo

2006-04-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Ramon van Alteren wrote: Suggest we pick one of the usual free licenses (maybe the same as the gentoo documentation project uses ?) Please! Otherwise we can never incorporate the material into any official documentation. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-cluster] High-Availability Howto for Gentoo

2006-04-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Brady Catherman wrote: One last question for you all.. Why is distcc so popular? We used it on our 134 node cluster and it actually made compiling much slower than just running it on one of the nodes. The network overhead killed the performance gain. The only way we found that it helped was

Re: [gentoo-cluster] Gentoo vs RedHat cluster

2006-04-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Brady Catherman wrote: So the short of it is that higher is always better, and this is only a 'best as I personally' could do comparison. OK, thanks for the clarification. Have you also run lmbench? After our conversion things went together much smoother and now maintenance is fairly

Re: [gentoo-cluster] Gentoo vs RedHat cluster

2006-04-11 Thread Jared Greenwald
Simon - have you considered OCFS2 vs unionfs? -Jared On 4/11/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: If they're redistributed programs, we would very much appreciate contribition of the ebuilds. Sorry, contribution Donnie -- gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-cluster] Gentoo vs RedHat cluster

2006-04-11 Thread Eric Thibodeau
The project's site: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/ contains _WAY_ too many acronyms and the name Oracle and Oracle-specific enhancements for Oracle tools... Though this new version seems to be more broad for it's intended use... Anyone has some experience with this?does it implement

Re: [gentoo-cluster] Gentoo vs RedHat cluster

2006-04-11 Thread Eric Thibodeau
Is it really?...it seems like it's a shared FS but there seems to be no way for it to be a shared _root_ ...as I said, I see no ways or indications that one can boot off of it. Eric Le Mardi 11 Avril 2006 21:55, Jared Greenwald a écrit : I was thinking of unionfs incorrectly... OCFS2 is more

Re: [gentoo-cluster] High-Availability Howto for Gentoo

2006-04-11 Thread Dice R. Random
Hi Eric, Sorry, forgot to CC the list on this. Here goes... On 4/11/06, Eric Thibodeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Rand(), I tend to prone the Diskless approach for the reasons you are mentionning. You can easily switch between roots with a network boot just by modifying your