Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 15:40:11 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Consistent inodes between distinct machines Message-ID: <4CA7BA82-E95C-45FF-9B94-8EF27B6DB024@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <48070DCF.9090902@fsn.hu> References: <48070DCF.9090902@fsn.hu>
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On Apr 17, 2008, at 3:43 AM, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > I have several NFS servers, where the service must be available > 0-24. The servers are mounted read only on the clients and I've > solved the problem of maintaining consistent inodes between them by > rsyncing an UFS image and mounting it via md on the NFS servers. > The machines have a common IP address with CARP, so if one of them > falls out, the other(s) can take over. > > This works nice, but rsyncing multi gigabyte files are becoming more > and more annoying, so I've wondered whether it would be possible to > get constant inodes between machines via alternative ways. Why not avoid syncing multi-gigabyte files by splitting your huge FS image into many smaller say 512MB files, then use md and geom concat/ stripe/etc to make them all one image that you mount? Eric
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