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Re: Linux Cluster



On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:51:57AM +0200, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
> Martin Tang wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >Does Debian Linux implement true clustering (two or more simultaneously
> >active servers sharing the same physical disks) ?
> >
> >    Mit eme scheene Griessli,
> >
> >                               Martin Tang
> > 
> >
> AFAIK you need special hardware to do this. What you can do in SW though 
> is to have two servers, that mirror each other eg. using RSync over a 
> fast dedicated line.

There are various free shared filesystems out there, if you have
hardware that permits shared access to disks (fibrechannel or
some other SAN kit).

There are also NAS filesystems which give a pretty good simulation of
it (lustre for example, although that's a bit immature).

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