On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 12:49 -0700, Dan Trainor wrote: > > > >For the backend storage, it depends what's your budget ... :o) > >A minimal setup is to use nfs on a central server to host/share the same > >data across all your machines ... the problem in this config is that the > >nfs server becomes the single point of failure ... so why not using a > >simple heartbeat solution for 2 nfs servers acting as one and uses drdb > >between these 2 nodes for the replication ... > >Other method is to have a dedicate san with hba in each webservers but > >that's another budget ... :o) > > > >Just my two cents ... > > > > > > > HI, Fabian - > > I've been toying aroudn with both NFS and GFS, but NFS does leave me > with a single point of failure. I'd rather not use something like drdb, > however. I'm still researching GFS to see if it's a viable alternative > for what I'm looking for. > > Thanks! > -dant GFS can do the job, but in this case you should have a real shared storage to permit all the servers to access the shared data in the same time ... If you don't want to invest a lot, you can still use iscsi but the single point of failure still exists ...