Need your advise.

Robert Slade bsd at bathnetworks.com
Thu Jun 23 06:19:29 GMT 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 20:39, Charles Swiger wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Nuttapon Tharachaikul wrote:
> >      Please  advise me , I would like to know  that : Does BSD5.4  
> > support "High Availability Clustering" same like RedHatAS3.0 ?  In  
> > term of the capability to handle share disk-storage to support  
> > redundancy of fail over single point of failure, that if one server  
> > fail then another one can be promote to handle application service  
> > by share disk-storage in a middle.
> 
> Hmm.  The answer is probably no, FreeBSD doesn't have anything which  
> handles NFS or Samba failover transparently.

Chuck,

Sorry to disagree. There is a port of Heartbeat to free BSD, (it is in
the ports). It does handle NFS and Samba failover transparently. In fact
it will handle almost anything that you can start and stop via a script.

Rob 



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