[ale] Redundant File Servers

[Bob Toxen]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:50:54AM -0700, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
> Hi all,

> I have been doing some research about either:
> a failover pair of fileservers, possibly load-balanced
> across the pair 
> or 
> a high-availability load-balanced cluster of file servers

> I just wanted to know if anyone was already working with a
> particular setup or product that they have had success
> with. I have been doing all the basic reading / research
> that I can find via google, tldp, and linux-ha.org.
I've developed and deployed failover software that would provide what
you're looking for.  Unlike most failover "heartbeat" software that
cannot detect a "sick" but not crashed system, mine is very good at
detecting even sick systems and successfully failing over.

Let me know if I can be of further help.

> I have already found OpenGFS, a Networked Raid 1 type
> setup, and supposedly RedHat's cluster management package
> has a solution available.

> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

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