On Jul 25, 8:22 pm, nsa....@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whats the best network-FS for a Linux LVS cluster used as a web-server
> for a (mysql)DB application?
> I can use no network-FS and replicate the DB but then I have a problem
> with session-management and also if the DB gets really large I run
> into problems with that too. I think using persistent connections is
> ugly so I would like to use a network-FS to at least store session-
> data, but would better like a network-FS to store the entire DB.
> The main DB will be large and holding lots of photos, video, and text.
> Allmost all web-page requests will require DB reads, only a few will
> require writes (except for the session-management data).
> I want very high-availability by the way, 100%.
>
> I looked into Lustre and PVFS, but they don't seem ideal, they get
> ugly when you need failover. Not sure about NFS.
>
> Is there no network FS that can just sort of create a RAID? I will use
> comodity servers for the cluster. Each has a single disk, I want to
> stripe and mirror over the disks to get both redundancy as well as
> extremely high capacity. Whats the solution for this? If a server goes
> down, everything must continue as normal without any hickups!
>
> Thanks alot!
> Tobias

this isn't a database question, but a clustering & file system
question.

You might get better responses in a comp.os.linux.* group.

Good luck!
Ed