I've seen some talk about GFS on the list in the past. I'm currently looking at this as a potential solution to deploying Rails apps to 50+ servers. Basically to take advantage of GFS giving you a single disk/file-system across the servers; to help ensure truly one set of files deployed to all servers, faster deploys, etc.
We currently have about 50+ servers, and that will grow. Our application architecture is SOA, so in reality one rails app won't be on all 50 servers, they'll be grouped, say 10-20 servers per service. I am currently eyeing a GFS setup where we use a server (per group) as a GFS disk, and GNBD across the machines. So, no SAN, no iSCSI, no fiber, etc. It's what I have available, so balancing the advantage of GFS vs. deploying the code to all machines in a more traditional setup. The servers in this case are 64bit boxes, with dual cores, and GigE (dual, but for this discussion assume a single one, since we split the net on them, etc.). Also, our application file storage is done using a different infrastructure, so it doesn't play into this. Databases are also on different boxes. I have not used GFS before, so I'm hoping for some input on some of these questions: - I presume that for the actual Rails application code, since it gets loaded up once in production mode, that say 20 servers pulling that from a single GNBD/GFS file system server would be no biggy. Correct? - Logs - this seems to be the danger area to me. Assuming we have "high traffic", and that we do quite a bit of logging (we log a lot of info for metrics and ability to follow requests through the SOA architecture, etc.), I worry about 20 servers all writing to a single log on the one GNBD/GFS server. Valid worry, or? Are there alternatives I should look at for logging in such an environment? - Thoughts, comments, notes on this approach in general? -- Chris Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
