[CentOS] Re: Keeping data on 2 servers in sync !

[Johnny Hughes]

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 15:44 -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Ugo Bellavance <ugob at camo-route.com> wrote:
> > I'd take a look at drbd (www.drbd.org) while you're reading
> > on heartbeat.  I use it for web servers, but I'm not sure
> > if it would be suitable for file servers.
> 
> There is a lot more to handling network file services --
> especially when it comes to locking and controlling write
> access -- that web servers don't have to worry about.  ;->
> 
I use drbd and heartbeat on a samba domain controller that has
failover ... BUT, you can't use both machines at the same time.

AND, it takes a GiB connector to keep the files in sync ... trying to do
it via a WAN connection would, I think, be fairly impossible.
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