Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:30:59 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Christopher Smith <csmith@its.uq.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Load balancing stuff (mainly samba) Message-ID: <200111300430.fAU4UxN35927@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <6FCE206C-E530-11D5-893A-000393020A4C@its.uq.edu.au>
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:20:27 +1000 Christopher Smith wrote:
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| We have two servers which will be providing a few different services to a
| couple of labs full of PCs. Primarily, file/print serving + domain
| authentication via samba and an authenticating squid proxy. I want to
| provide these servers in a load balanced/redundant failover type
| configuration. However, I'm unsure as to how best go about it. In
| particular, I was wanting to have separate copies of the user's home
| directories on each machine. Is there any way I can have the separate
| copies of the home directories on each machine, but keep them synchronised
| in realtime ? (I supposed what I really want is for vinum to be able to
| use something like NFS exports as its disks :).
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Take a look at coda. It uses a scheme of local cacheing and
replication to present a common file hierarchy over a potentialy large
number of servers. IIRC samba can share a coda filesystem.
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Chris Fedde
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