Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 21:39:34 +0530 From: Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: NFS or rsync for sharing files between FreeBSD servers? Message-ID: <CAPTAQBJD1qZ9kZSrXOOuKLHC6J_O3jBPiH4Yqav3qfQp8V7wtA@mail.gmail.com>
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We need to share a number of directories between 3 servers running 9.3 . Most of these directories contain php/html/js/images files which do not change frequently. We need to keep the directories in sync on all three servers. Currently, we run a rsync command every time there is a change in one of the files/directories. Sometimes it does happen that we forget to run the rsync script making one of the servers return old versions. That is where we are planning to introduce a nfs_server on one of the servers, while the other two will be nfs_clients accessing the files through a shared directory. I understand that it would present a single point of failure, but in terms of disk access speed, will it make a huge difference further impacting the web servers running on the nfs_client servers ? The servers are connected to each other over gigabit lines, and the files are themselves not greater than 20-30 kb on an average, with some of the larger image files somewhere around 4-5 MB. Amitabh
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