RE: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

[Markus Oswald <moswald@iirc.at>]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 12:07, Javier Castillo Alcibar wrote:
> By the way, what filysystem do you recomend for these kind of
> clusters?? NFS?? Coda??

Depends on what you want to do - for instance:

Build a balanced server farm to handle a lot of traffic:
Just use a NFS server as centralized storage for your document root and
let all cluster-nodes access it. Your balancer(s) can handle the HA part
and manage your server-pool. Your NFS server is your SPOF though if it's
not a cluster itself.

Build a (two node) failover cluster:
Take a look at DRBD - it's a redundant network block device. You can use
almost any filesystem on top of it. Preferably journaling of course.

best regards
  Markus
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