Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:25:04 -0400 From: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> To: "Mauro Rezzonico" <list@ch23.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Netwroked Storage Message-ID: <21683F053F9E47459153BB4E511717FA@GRANTLAPTOP> In-Reply-To: <4AC2B87A.7050407@ch23.org> References: <ADA4B9316B604F71BBBA917DB1CF9306@GRANT> <4AC2B87A.7050407@ch23.org>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mauro Rezzonico" <list@ch23.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:46 PM Subject: Re: Netwroked Storage > Grant Peel wrote: >> The intent here is to connect about 10 Web servers, each of them hosting >> about 200 domains, to a central storage system to house users home >> directories. >> It might be worth noting that the Web machines host a full array of >> software, i.e. Mail, Web, MySQL, PHP etc. > > I don't have an answer, bu I have a question, probably a naive one and > even slightly OT.. > > If the 200 domains are hosting MySQL driven web applications (let's say > 200 Wordpress), then perhaps they are connecting to the very same MySQL > instance, so ALL their databases are in the same mysql_dbdir, and > perhaps the dbdir is /var/db/mysql... > So: how do you deal things like that with MySQL driven web applications? > How are you going to deal the mysql_dbdir issue? NFS perhaps is not the > best filesystem for MySQL tables (performance-wise)... > Are you going to 'mysqldump' the databases back in each home dir? > Periodically? And keep the databases on the local disks? > > -- > Mauro Rezzonico <mauro@ch23.org>, Como, Italia > "Maybe this world is another planet's hell" - H.Huxley > All machines are completely autonomous. i.e they each run thier own applications and store all data to thier own disks. -Grant > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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