On 2014-08-15T14:29:46, steve <steve@steve-ss.com> wrote:
We are amazed that obviously knowledgeable engineers are questioning the availability advantages of a 2 node cluster that keeps us all working over a single file server which doesn't if it fails! But OK, we'll scrap this idea.
No, nobody did question the availability advantage. Just the performance benefits of going active/active. And in your scenario, using a traditional fail-over setup like drbd + ext4 (or XFS) is a much better choice compared to drbd (pri/pri) + OCFS2.
We have a mix of 80 linux and xp computers, some of which are over 10 years old. Our file servers are second hand computers which a bank were throwing out. We want to keep working. We have €150 and 2 old AMD computers. What do you recommend?
Doing this with this hardware is okay, that can definitely help with availability. Regards, Lars -- Architect Storage/HA SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ha+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ha+owner@opensuse.org