From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 19:54:22 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE48616A41A for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 19:54:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jprats@cesca.es) Received: from carlit.cesca.es (carlit.cesca.es [84.88.0.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A38813C48D for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 19:54:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jprats@cesca.es) Received: from carlit.cesca.es (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carlit.cesca.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A6C6331F51; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:32:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from [213.97.212.36] (36.Red-213-97-212.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.97.212.36]) by carlit.cesca.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id F09D2331ACB; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:32:04 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <472A3948.7040605@cesca.es> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:38:32 +0100 From: Jordi Prats User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070829) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Ross References: <4727BDD6.8060105@cesca.es> <20071031222808.V1141@klein.bigpond.com> In-Reply-To: <20071031222808.V1141@klein.bigpond.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HA cluster X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:54:22 -0000 Thanks Peter, I suppose I'll have to do some more work than just change the OS ;) regards, Jordi Peter Ross wrote: > Hi Jordi, > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Jordi Prats wrote: > >> Currently I have two (redundant) load balancers with LVS, > > I checked the Website.. the most of them are on application level so they > should be available under FreeBSD as well. > > E.g. I have a Red Hat szenario with Apache as the loadbalancer and > clustered tomcat 6.0 behind. A developer has the same setup at a FreebSD-7 > box and tests it there. > >> and several NFS, > > I believe the Red Had Cluster uses GFS to have concurrent r/w access to > the SAN? > > I try to imagine to use FreeBSD stuff as gmirror, ZFS, iscsi, CARP etc... > it all does not sum up to something similiar - but it may be my lack of > imagination only. > > NFSv4 is designed to support for replication and migration but I have no > idea about the FreeBSD implementation status. I just find this old status > report: > http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2006-01-2006-03.html#FreeBSD-NFS-Status-Report > > "FreeBSD NFSv4 server is pretty stable now and available via anonymous > ftp. NFSv4.1 features are not a part of it yet and are not likely to > happen until at least the end of 2006. Contact > rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca for details." > > The sources for current only contains code for a NFSv4 client. > > To be fair I do not know about the Linux implematation either. A document > last updated in March > (http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_state) predicts this > implemented in 2.6.19. We have 2.6.23 by now but I cannot find it in the > kernel changelogs.. > >> MySQL and PostgreSQL servers using RedHat cluster suite. > > As already pointed out there are replication solutions for postgresql and > MySQL - they should work under FreeBSD in the same way as for Linux. > > Regards > Peter > >