No, only a couple of specific linux filesystems. One filesystem contains all the UV data and the other has Samba shares. The OS filesystem isn't replicated since it contains server-specific config files along with the replication software itself. We're using Steeleye's LifeKeeper for replication.
-John -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Address Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 6:53 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Unidata 6.1 Replication Do you replicate every file on the server ? --- On Wed, 12/16/09, John Hester <[email protected]> wrote: > From: John Hester <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [U2] Unidata 6.1 Replication > To: "U2 Users List" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 1:00 AM Brad is right. You can > get bitten by OS-level replication with U2 because hashed files > require more than one write when a record has to go to overflow space. > If the primary box crashes when only one of these writes is done, the > secondary box will have a corrupted file. There are also issues with > UV dynamic files (don't know about UD) because some of the file > structure information is cached in memory and not immediately flushed > to disk. We do OS-level replication on UV and got around these issues > by sizing all files to use no overflow and only using dynamic files > for temp report work files. > > -John _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
