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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051205/c0a8fd6e/attachment-0005.sig>