[ale] File server syncronization

Ed Cashin ecashin at noserose.net
Wed Jan 27 17:22:07 EST 2010


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Realistically a better choice is to look at a distributed filesystem like GFS and it's cousins or block level processes like DRBD. But again it's going to eat up bandwidth.

I wish I knew more about gluster.  You can ask it to do mirroring as long as you
have at least two "serves", according to the document at the URL below.

  http://gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_Storage_Platform

I wonder, though, whether the OP wants these filesystems to be "nearby"
or far apart with regard to networking.  I also wonder whether there
are constraints
on the two filesystems, e.g., maybe they can't be GFS or gluster because they
have to be single-host-mounted NTFS, in which case a higher-level approach
like rsync etc. might be the only option.

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