Re: Debian and SAN support
On 10 Feb 2004, Robin Vley wrote:
> I was actually thinking of building a fileserver running with a SCSI
> RAID5 array in it, and then just NFS the share out to a couple of
> webserver frontends. Anyone using such a solution, or am I overlooking
> something completely here? Round robin DNS, combined with a simple
> monitoring script that can take IP's out of the zonefile (short TTL).
Even if this has nothing to do with the SAN in the subject, if you are
interested in high availability, you should definitely take a look at
drbd (www.drbd.org). It lets you mirror drives in real-time across a
fast network. This doesn't let you do load balancing, though.
Oliver
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