I couldn't do such a thing without a 10Gig Ethernet to power the systems I use with Gluster and GFS. They both run pretty smoothly on such an environment.
My application is a large iSCSi domain. For a very small network I would think it wouldn't be a problem. How small though you would have to try and see. Gluster/GFS thier ilk are not very forgiving on frugal systems. Beware. On Thu, Aug 11, 2022, 3:49 AM Philip Rhoades <p...@pricom.com.au> wrote: > People, > > For many years (after some nasty experiences) I have been in the habit > of using a Fedora Work Station (which stays on but gets rebooted fairly > frequently) and a separate Fedora server (email-MTA, some Web sites etc) > which stays on for very long periods of time and only gets rebooted > infrequently. I have other systems that get booted occasionally. My > habit has been to backup / rsync important / critical data between the > regular WS and the main server as appropriate - this has allowed me on a > number of occasions to recover happily when hardware has failed, to get > going temporarily again on one or the other machine while I sort out the > problem. > > More recently I have been thinking about building an ARM cluster with > Gluster that would hold all the data for both the WS and the main server > and any other WSs or servers I might need to run from time to time. I > would still make use of an off-site backup anyway but I like the idea of > just being able to add another ARM device + SATA drive to the cluster to > create more data space. I also thought I would go back to making use of > WSs that were basically just X-servers that booted from some sort of USB > stick but got the OS image from the cluster - this might be complicated > by the fact I now use Sway rather than X - but one problem at a time . . > > Has anyone here set up a cluster something like this? Have people any > suggestions about specific Fedora web pages / docs to look at? > > I have been tracking CEPH for some time and while it looks interesting, > it seems overkill for what I am thinking of doing and more technically > difficult to support / debug etc. I am thinking of starting the > exercise with 4 RPis each with an 8Tb SATA drive. > > Thanks, > > Phil. > -- > Philip Rhoades > > PO Box 896 > Cowra NSW 2794 > Australia > E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au > _______________________________________________ > arm mailing list -- arm@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to arm-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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