Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 00:21:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: ken@kdm.org (Kenneth D. Merry) Cc: mikel@zso.dec.com, dg@root.com, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clustering? Message-ID: <199908250021.RAA09587@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199908242326.RAA72095@panzer.kdm.org> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at Aug 24, 99 05:26:29 pm
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> > Ideally it would have live shared access... > > > > However, I'd be happy to get minimal one-or-the-other functionality like > > Wolfpack does. I run a small-time website hosting business off a FreeBSD > > server, and something as crude as this would be a big improvement over the > > current mechanism where on failure, I'd have to physically swap the drive > > cable to a partner machine and boot it. This is exactly the limited mode to which I was referring. > You can probably run things in a multi-initiator mode (i.e. with both > FreeBSD boxes attached to the array) and just use the array on one machine > or the other. You'd have to have the SCSI side of things setup properly, > of course. (just how depends on the array hardware, bus setup, etc.) > > I haven't actually done this, but I think Matt Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> may > have done it with Fibre Channel. You'd have to ask him how it works. I would be interested in his response, if he wouldn't mind it being forwarded to the fs list... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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