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Date:      Sat, 31 Mar 2001 16:35:30 +0200
From:      "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk>
To:        "ryanb" <ryanb@goddamnbastard.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Mirrorred webservers: Updating, logging.
Message-ID:  <01d501c0ba1f$23cc06a0$6405a8c0@neland.dk>
References:  <00e201c09c62$fbd45aa0$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> <20010329101658.A87734@bjorn.goddamnbastard.org>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ryanb" <ryanb@goddamnbastard.org>
To: "Leif Neland" <leif@neland.dk>
Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: Mirrorred webservers: Updating, logging.


> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:04:10AM +0100, Leif Neland wrote:
> > We're thinking about mirroring our webservers for redundancy.
> > 
> > There exist different solutions, however, I have not seen any mentioning on how to update the sites; the customers shouldn't have to update two sites; it should work transparently.
> 
> Would there be an option to use an NFS server to house all the content
> and logs, thus leaving a common thread for any amount of machines you'd
> like to slave from a single set of data?  A user could edit/upload to
> their space housed on a file server with changes effective immediately
> on _all_ client machines.
> 
That still leaves that NFS-server as the single point of failure. So that is no option.

I discovered some smart guy had set our secondary nameserver to have its files nfs-mounted from the primary. So much for redundancy...

Leif




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