Re: [SAGE] Round #2: no more NFS please

[Philip Brown <phil@bolthole.com>]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 12:17:21PM -0500, g.ennis@ns1.adnog.org wrote:
> 
> Any thoughts or suggestions?? Given the +99% uptime requirement - whatever 
> replacement is suggested, it would have to be very stable and robust. 
> Nothing "experimental" is going to be acceptable. The preference would be for 
> something one could purchase 24x7 support for.

If you want to throw money at it, you might want to investigate
veritas cluster filesystem, and fiber-attached storage.. IF the two sites
are close enough for a "direct" fibre communication channel.
Allows for direct access reads to the disks. eg: simultaneous access to the
filesystem. Writes are coordinated by the "active" master node.

Havent gotten to try it out ourselves, but we're looking at it. It's been
around for a while, so probably falls in the "stable and robust" category.



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