On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:54 AM, trifo <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am running a web site using Apache httpd on several server nodes to
> provide high availability and performance. At present, the web content
> resides on a clustered filesystem (GPFS) to ensure that all the nodes serve
> the same content in any moment.
>
> Well, GPFS is quite an expensive product, thus the management tries to get
> rid of it. Now my question is this: how to build a high performance
> environement without a clustered filesystem? Where to store the html files,
> and how to ensure the consistency between nodes?
>

We have a number of webservers running on ZFS. According to what I could
find about GPFS, VFS looks like a decent replacement, but YMMV.

- Y

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