Hi, In response to Adrian I'm looking for a solution that will work well under RHEL.
Thanks for the suggestions thus far I'll check them out now. Comments below On 1/16/08, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:15:51PM +1100, Joel Heenan wrote: > > SLUG, > > > > We have a requirement in a new project to have a distributed > > filesystem. Files are written to one of 32 * 200MB volumes and we need > > to keep them in sync with a DR site. Rsync, I believe, will be just > > too slow to replicate changes - unless there is some way to make the > > rsync daemon hook into the kernel and know what changes have been > > made? > > lustre comes to mind ? you haven't really expanded on how the striping is > supposed to be done ? Umm not striping mirroring. Looking at having all the data replicated out to a DR site so there would be to separate instances. > > > > > RHEL GFS I think will not work across such differences and won't do it > > asynchronously. > can you expand on across such differences. > Sorry I didn't mean to say differences I meant to say distances. The DR site is a good 20km away. I have not researched this thoroughly but it was my understanding that GFS was designed for fibre connected volumes not over large distances with higher latency. > > > > unionfs is I think too experimental. > > > > Continous Access, using our SAN to replicate the data, at this point > > has to be discounted because of licensing. > > > > How do other people generally solve this problem? > > > > Thanks > > > > Joel > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > > -- > "We will stand up for terror --we will stand up for freedom." > > - George W. Bush > 10/18/2004 > Marlton, NJ > in a campaign speech > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFHjabdkZz88chpJ2MRAtajAKCyBHYpuJVrDn0/kZxA6Ip2jD7ZOwCgmBL6 > ztaW/YLUVg5UdXS29A7eArg= > =SVkT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > Thanks Joel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
