I'm working on running it here as laid out in the manual. I've had it working 
in a dev environment well. It can be fiddly to set up, but seems to do the job.

Andi

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Frisvold [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 02 October 2013 19:03
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PacketFence-users] Packetfence HA questions

Peter Reilly wrote:
> In the example in the manual, the haresources file contains: 
> Filesystem::/dev/drbd0::/var/lib/mysql::ext3
> 
> Not having used Linux-HA before, if I'm understanding correctly, this 
> specifies that only /var/lib/mysql is "shared" between the primary and 
> secondary hosts.  Is there a reason more locations are not shared, or 
> is the example incomplete?  I would have thought /usr/local/pf/ would 
> have been included, and possibly other locations as well.

I'm not sure if it's in the manual, but Inverse had us add a cronjob to rsync 
the servers on a 15 minute interval.  The data on the server is pretty static, 
it's the database that changes a lot.

> I'm also curious, is the use of Linux-HA & DRBD fairly common in 
> PacketFence deployments?

Not sure if it's common, but we run it here.

> Thanks!
> 
> Peter


--
---------------------------
Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
[email protected]
---------------------------

"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.\"
- Niven's Inverse of Clarke's Third Law

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
October Webinars: Code for Performance
Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance.
Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from 
the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > 
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
_______________________________________________
PacketFence-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
October Webinars: Code for Performance
Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance.
Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from 
the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register >
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
_______________________________________________
PacketFence-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users

Reply via email to