On 04/05/2011 04:27 PM, Glenn Stone wrote:
$NEWCOMPANY is having major issues with OCFS, and I'm looking into
alternatives for replacing it. A big item on our wishlist is the ability to
both have multiple hosts writing to the distributed filesystem, *and* have
read-only backup copies on standby hosts (which could then be converted to
active in the event of catastrophe). Coda seems to fit this bill, from what
I've been able to google up. I'm not, however, able to determine if this
thing is still in an R&D phase, or ready for prime time; it seems to maybe
kinda slowly still be being worked on? (Latest RPM's are dated 1/26/2010).
Exploring alternatives,
Glenn
Listen: I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm
not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops. But it also means I keep my
options open. -- Jeffery Pelt, "Red October"
My first question would be what will the client's be running? Depending
on your environment, I would probably look at exporting GlusterFS shares
as NFS for compatibility with pretty much every client out there. The
GlusterFS clients (running on the servers exporting their own shares)
would take care of the automatic mirroring and failover for you.
Would need a lot more details though to say for sure.
- Marc
