Brian Kroth 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
You may want to consider OpenAFS: http://www.openafs.org/ Not really sure if this is what you're after or not, but since there have been several ideas mentioned in this thread in response to your post already, I thought I'd mention it in case you're not aware of it. HTH. -Kevin -- [email protected] mailing list
