-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDlPwipdyWzQ5b5ckRAgPOAJ42Tuz+QdmY2rcSwUsG6cXj2IKM1gCfYmXU Th+ez+hJTOa06enE1yBM2GY= =vppl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----