On Dec 1, 2007 2:01 AM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/11/2007, Noam Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had some experience with RHCS. Personally, it will be one of my last > > choices for a good opensource HA software. (linux-ha first, actually) > > That's what I tried - but at least the packages on my test systems > just crash and burn even running a simple "stonith -h" or > "BasicSanityCheck".
Never felt the need for using stonith, so can't really know. Linux-HA just worked for me great without it. > > > > It is very lacking in the area of Ethernet heartbeats (allows only one!) > and > > What do you mean by "allows only one"? Exactly what it sounds like. > > > > Anyhow, RHCS does have one good point which will make it the first OSS > > candidate on certain scenarios which is GFS. > > Well - can't you configure GFS without it? No. GFS requires RHCS, it's one bundle. > > > Also - I got the impression the OCFS is more recommanended by users on > the net, but it doesn't come as a CentOS package - is it worth the > trouble to install? You need OCFS2. You can download RPMs from Oracle's website. Though, I *think* that you will require oracle's cssd to use it. > > > > There is much more into it, but in order to give more information I > would > > need more information about your application and its architecture. > > The main application just updates a SQLite file a lot. All we want is > to have a stand-by node to take over and keep providing network > service (reading and updating the file) if/when the primary node goes > down. For this we share the file on DRBD but of course we need > something to tell the secondary node to take control of the service. Uhm. Don't have actual experience with DRBD. Though, I find this technology a bit scary. Personally I would prefer a real storage device (SAN or NAS) for this kind of work (and make sure that the storage is highly available). Then I can go to sleep at night ;-) At this point I would prefer Linux-HA (or if you really have the money: Veritas Cluster) Best regards, Noam
