On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 20:23, Christopher McCrory wrote: > > > > If it really is failover you are after, look at the HOWTOs and the > > journal articles referenced on the Linux-HA pages. > > The minimal setup you will need is two servers, linked by a single > > Ethernet and a serial cable. The heartbeat can run over both the > > Ethernet and the serial link, giving you redundancy. > > > > Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of testing GFS? > You are absolutely correct. This is of course a GFS list! I thought you were wanting to know how to put together a failover setup with minimal hardware - and was giving some pointers on that, as I've done that sort of work. I agree that a lab-type setup for testing GFS on a small scale would be very interesting.
