Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-07-13 Thread Dave Kempe
Crossfire wrote: I want to be able to set it up so /home (and maybe other filesystems) are replicated from one to the other, in both directions, in real time so they can run in an all-hot redundant cluster. I think I found something that might help you:

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-08 Thread Matt Moor
Crossfire wrote: I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and strictly 2 nodes) without STOMITH[1]. The scenario is I have two identical

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-08 Thread Matthew Hannigan
I don't know whether it would suit you at all, but I'll mention http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe for the simple reason it looks interesting and it only just announced version 1.0 RC's mention of Ceph jogged my memory on this. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-07 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Amos Shapira wrote: 1. You CAN'T mount a non-cluster-aware file system even read-only on the secondary node since the primary will change FS-structs under the feet of the read-only node and cause it to crash (because non-cluster-aware filesystems assume that they are

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Collins
Adrian Chadd wrote: I looked into it about a year ago and I couldn't find any simple way of doing this using free software. There's CODA/AFS as possible solutions but they still push the notion of master/slave rather than equal peers, which Chris mentions he needs (ie, constant synchronisation

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-07 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 09:52 +1100, Crossfire wrote: I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and strictly 2 nodes) without STOMITH[1].

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, Crossfire wrote: Dave Kempe wrote: Crossfire wrote: I want to be able to set it up so /home (and maybe other filesystems) are replicated from one to the other, in both directions, in

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008, Amos Shapira wrote: I've been using DRBD for a few months now (just in stand-by mode, but been following the forums and docs during that time) and all indications are that: 1. You CAN'T mount a non-cluster-aware file system even read-only on the secondary node since

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008, Amos Shapira wrote: I've been using DRBD for a few months now (just in stand-by mode, but been following the forums and docs during that time) and all indications are that: 1. You CAN'T mount

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-05 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Crossfire wrote: Dave Kempe wrote: Crossfire wrote: I want to be able to set it up so /home (and maybe other filesystems) are replicated from one to the other, in both directions, in real time so they can run in an all-hot redundant cluster. The environment

[SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Crossfire
I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and strictly 2 nodes) without STOMITH[1]. The scenario is I have two identical systems with local

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Mick Pollard
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:52:55 +1100 Crossfire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and strictly 2 nodes)

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Dave Kempe
Crossfire wrote: I want to be able to set it up so /home (and maybe other filesystems) are replicated from one to the other, in both directions, in real time so they can run in an all-hot redundant cluster. The environment should be mostly read-oriented, so I can live with write-latent

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Crossfire
Mick Pollard wrote: On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:52:55 +1100 Crossfire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Dave Kempe
Dave Kempe wrote: I was thinking just yesterday some sort of fuse filesystem is what we need :) dave haven't tried it, but this is fuse http://www.furquim.org/chironfs/ dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Crossfire
Dave Kempe wrote: Crossfire wrote: I want to be able to set it up so /home (and maybe other filesystems) are replicated from one to the other, in both directions, in real time so they can run in an all-hot redundant cluster. The environment should be mostly read-oriented, so I can live with

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:52:55AM +1100, Crossfire wrote: I've just spent some time quickly researching this to no real satisfaction. What I'm looking for is a way to do real-time hot-replication of a whole filesystem or filesystem tree over 2 nodes (and strictly 2 nodes) without

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 10:11:00AM +1100, John Ferlito wrote: Keeping in mind I've never done this so no idea how well it works. I'd say a combination of Global File System - http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/gfs/ I think the requirements where for no STOMITH and GFS uses that in both