Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 13:56:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clustering/fail-over capability? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970912135000.214A-100000@dumbwinter.ecomotor.it> In-Reply-To: <199709111913.OAA07761@news.cioe.com>
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On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Steven Ames wrote: > > Mirroring disks is pretty easy to do, the built-in disk striping > > driver (ccd) does this already. But the rest is pretty tricky. > > But in this case you'd really want to be mirroring the disks > across servers, not within the same server. ccd can't do that. I agree. Ccd can help with mirroring, not with clustering. > I believe that 'clustering' is going to become a more important > topic in the near future. Having fail over and load balanced > servers is desired for larger 'mission critical' applications. Exactly. As far as I know, Digital has the best know-how in clustering, with the VAX VMS operating system. I think they added a sort of clustering capability to their Unix. (They also added clustering to NT, but *we* are talking about serious OSes, I suppose ;-) Marco Molteni Computer Science student at the Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy. UNIX _is_ user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
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