From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 09:58:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B61616A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:58:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E5843D31 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:58:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gmeijer@palmweb.nl) Received: from guus (simoon.xs4all.nl [213.84.111.205]) by smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j1E9wqL3086640; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:58:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gmeijer@palmweb.nl) Message-ID: <041901c5127b$deb1d180$9600000a@guus> From: "Gerard Meijer" To: "Peter Risdon" References: <03f501c51276$bf4f18c0$9600000a@guus> <1108374592.23699.200.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:59:27 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: live mirroring X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:58:55 -0000 Peter, I don't really understand this approach. Where can I read more about nfs? Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Risdon" To: "Gerard Meijer" Cc: Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 10:49 AM Subject: Re: live mirroring > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 10:22 +0100, Gerard Meijer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a question. I want to set-up a site on 3 identical FreeBSD >> servers, using Round Robin to distribute the load. >> >> The site will be running some .cgi and .php scripts and when those >> scripts make changes to the configuration files of the sites, they need >> to be spread automatically to the other two servers. Also when files are >> uploaded to one server, I need them to automatically upload to the other >> servers to. >> >> What is the best program to do this? Or am I looking at it the wrong way >> and should I do it different? > > Mirroring is one approach, but here's another: > > One of the servers holds the data and nfs exports it to the other two. > The webroot is on the mounted nfs filesystem. This also eliminates > potential data synchronisation problems if you have different > filesystems having overlapping/incompatible changes made to them. It > lets you invest in one really resilient storage system instead of three > possibly inferior ones. > > Peter. > >