Replication system

Michael Grant mgrant at grant.org
Mon Nov 3 15:39:48 PST 2008


On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Jordi Espasa Clofent
<jespasac at minibofh.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have to build a clustered website with FreeBSD 7.x as SO and Apache 2.x as
> httpd. As load-balancing solution I'll use HAProxy (or maybe a OpenBSD
> relayd, I'm not sure).
>
> Because of several technical (and especially non-technical) reasons, I
> haven't the possibility to mount a shared storage layer (NFS, SAN...) so I
> have to share the local data among the different httpd servers.
>
> At first approach I've thought in rsync+cron, but
>
> ¿anyone knows another replication-data solution in the described scenario?
>
> PD. Please, don't advice to me to using a pure shared-data layer... I know
> it will be the optimal structure, but as I've said above, I can't use it
> because various reasons.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Jordi Espasa Clofent

GlusterFS http://www.gluster.org seems promising.  It is a replication
layer that sits on top of FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace
http://fuse.sf.net).  You can replicate pretty much any type of file
system, ufs, zfs, dos...etc.  In other words, you don't need to
reformat your disk or create some special underlying file system.
GlusterFS is in userspace.

However.... I have yet to get it working on freebsd.  Anyone had any
luck with GlusterFS on Freebsd 6.x?

Michael Grant


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