Re: [gentoo-cluster] SAN Clustered Filesystem

2007-01-27 Thread Ramon van Alteren
Hanni Ali wrote: >> I've looked at implementing a mysql-cluster in great detail and let it >> go because it's mostly meant for a setup with a fixed database-size. >> If you experience (large) growth in your database volume clustering is >> not very suitable (we're in that situation) > > I'd agree,

Re: [gentoo-cluster] SAN Clustered Filesystem

2007-01-26 Thread Hanni Ali
I've looked at implementing a mysql-cluster in great detail and let it go because it's mostly meant for a setup with a fixed database-size. If you experience (large) growth in your database volume clustering is not very suitable (we're in that situation) I'd agree, database clustering has to be

Re: [gentoo-cluster] SAN Clustered Filesystem

2007-01-26 Thread Ramon van Alteren
Hi Brian, Brian Kroth wrote: > I currently manage about 40 Window, OSX, and Hardened Gentoo servers. > I will soon have 12 P4 servers that were previously used as video > encoders free as well as an Apple XRaid. With all this spare hardware > I thought I'd research setting up a cluster of server

Re: [gentoo-cluster] SAN Clustered Filesystem

2007-01-25 Thread busby
Brian, Have you seen this project: http://www.pvfs.org/ Multi-disk/multi-server storage, sounds like what you're wanting. If found it when hunting for a package to help me build something like the Isilon (sp?) systems. /djb > G'day Brian, > > I've played around with OCFS2 and AoE in co

Re: [gentoo-cluster] SAN Clustered Filesystem

2007-01-25 Thread Brad Plant
G'day Brian, I've played around with OCFS2 and AoE in combination with Xen and they seem to work alright. I did have to increase the hearbeat timout for OCFS2 because all the machines would think the SAN went offline when there was _heavy_ load. Works a treat now that the timeout has been increas

[gentoo-cluster] SAN Clustered Filesystem

2007-01-25 Thread Brian Kroth
Hello all, I currently manage about 40 Window, OSX, and Hardened Gentoo servers. I will soon have 12 P4 servers that were previously used as video encoders free as well as an Apple XRaid. With all this spare hardware I thought I'd research setting up a cluster of servers running Apache for l