On Jul 30, 3:41 pm, Chris T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Tom > > By clustered filesystems (apologies for my ignorance) do you mean some > sort of SAN. At the moment, I'm using one of the Xen instances as NFS, > which works OK), and though I was thinking I'll probably need to upgrade > the storage as the site grows, it hasn't so far been a problem.
You don't necessarily need a SAN to implement a clustered filesystem, but it helps. As an alternative, you could potentially use gnbd or vlbade on a Xen instances (or instances) to supply the SANishness required. > If you shared RAILS_ROOT in its entirety does this increase problems > with the various servers trying to access the same files (obviously > logging could be a problem -- though that could presumably be solved by > going to a Syslog solution -- at the moment I've got each > mongrel_cluster handling its own logging)? We've found logging to a different disk to be ideal. In our case we generally log to the /var partition. While it's convenient to have your logs in one place, we've found the performance penalty to be too high. -- -- Tom Mornini, CTO -- Engine Yard, Ruby on Rails Hosting -- Support, Scalability, Reliability -- (866) 518-YARD (9273) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
