From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 10 08:08:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDAF216A4CE for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:08:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ECF0D43D2F for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:08:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 49434 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2004 16:08:05 -0000 Received: from 217-162-134-28.dclient.hispeed.ch (HELO ga) (217.162.134.28) by 0 with SMTP; 10 Feb 2004 16:08:05 -0000 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:10:04 +0100 From: Gabriel Ambuehl Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <349799726.20040210171004@buz.ch> To: Andy Sporner In-Reply-To: <4028CC66.80300@nentec.de> References: <187a6c3bb6bd5002259b39e485140752@202.157.183.139> <4028A614.8030103@nentec.de> <20040210015115.C17961@knight.ixsystems.net> <1076410247.1150.28.camel@ip16.ops.uk.psi.com> <4028CC66.80300@nentec.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-cluster Subject: Re: Clustering with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:08:08 -0000 Hello Andy, Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 1:19:50 PM, you wrote: > What FREP does (at the moment only in the lab) is to syncronize > access to directories and replicate the changes done by the nodes. > The idea is to be able to have a 2-3 nodes running mail servers with > the spool directories replicated (locking is on the file basis). A > load balancer goes on the front and with this you have a scalabale > Mail server that is fault resiliant. Is FREP avalaible somewhere? I'd love to bang on it. Remote Raw Devices would be cool, but if there's an easy way to sync individual files, that would do a good job too. How does FREP figure out what files need to be synced (walking the tree isn't exactly fast for big servers...)? Best regards, Gabriel