Learned folk. I have a fairly hefty Linux install used for high definition video capture and storage.
Part of this system is a NAS server which advertises large storage arrays to the network via SMB (CIFS, whatever they're calling it these days). Owing to the nature of the application, there are two servers for this (redundancy), however the vendor insists that only one be turned on at a time, leaving a failover delay in the event of problems while someone attends the device, turns off the failed server, turns on the redundant one and fires up the relevant processes. Does the Linux world support the concept of active/passive (passive node takes over if active fails) clustering for this kind of situation? Or even active/active (both nodes answer requests depending on load)? If so, what direction should I look so I can, erm, encourage said vendor to investigate integrating this into their setup. These boxes are used for presenting fileshares, as well as running an FTP server and some tape library management software. Thanks. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
