Hello, BTW do you know any software solution that supports asynchronous replication on Linux like AVS on Solaris ? Best regards, Tomek On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:17:59 -0500 Chris Harms <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The non-SAN option would be to use DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) and put > NFS, Samba, etc on top of the DRBD partition. > > Chris > > MARTI, ROBERT JESSE wrote: > > You don't have to have a mirrored LVM to do what youre trying to do. > > You just need a common mountable share - typically a SAN or NAS. It > > shouldn't be too hard to configure (and I've already done it). You > > don't even *have* to have cluster suite - if you have a load balancer. > > My brain isn't fast enough today to figure out how to share a load > > without a load balanced VIP or a DNS round robin (which should be easy > > to do as well). > > > > Rob Marti > > Systems Analyst II > > Sam Houston State University > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Daniel Maher > > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 12:40 PM > > To: linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: (newbie) mirrored data / cluster ? > > > > Hello all, > > > > I have spent the day reading through the mailing list archives, Redhat > > documentation, and CentOS forums, and - to be frank - my head is now > > swimming with information. > > > > My scenario seems reasonably straightforward : I would like to have two > > file servers which mirror each others' data, then i'd like those two > > servers to act as a cluster, whereby they serve said data as if they > > were one machine. If one of the servers suffers a critical failure, the > > other will stay up, and the data will continue to be accessible to the > > rest of the network. > > > > I note with some trepidation that this might not be possible, as per > > this document : > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/RHEL51 > > 0/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/mirrored_volumes.html > > > > However, i don't know if that document relates to the same scenario i've > > described above. I would very much appreciate any and all feedback, > > links to further documentation, and any other information that you might > > like to share. > > > > Thank you ! > > > > > > -- > > Daniel Maher <dma AT witbe.net> > > > > -- > > Linux-cluster mailing list > > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > > > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Tomasz Sucharzewski <tsucharz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
