Re: [Hampshire] High availability database

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Author: Stephen Nelson-Smith
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To: chris, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] High availability database
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Chris Simmonds <chris@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a situation where I need to keep data on several PCs on a LAN in
> sync. Any PC may update the data, with suitable locking, which must be
> pushed out to all the others. It must be possible for a PC to go down
> and be brought back on line again without impacting the others. The
> amount of data is not large - say a few thousand items - and the
> population of PCs is also modest - maybe 50 of them. All will be running
> some version of Red Hat Linux.
>
> Has anyone worked on something along these lines?


Not with 50 nodes - let me think about that. However, you can look at
OCFS2 or Redhat Cluster Suite, with GFS2.

S.