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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:13:58PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
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.
Actually, you can't. I did that twice for telco datacenters. It is tricky as hell, but it is possible. I would not recomend it to first timers on drbd, tho.
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.
Yes, WAN would be not good for it.
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