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Old 05-16-2010, 08:53 PM   #1
bmcguire
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Distributed/Replicated file system


Hello,

I am trying to use two CentOS 5.5 boxes to serve up email. I wish to loadbalance HTTP, IMAP, POP3, and SMTP between the two servers. The servers are not in a cluster (the email software does not require it).

What filesystem could be used to distribute/replicate the files between the two servers?

I have tried NFS, GFS, and GlusterFS. All of which work but result in a latency that is unacceptable to the end users (webmail clients).

Thanks,

Bryan

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Old 05-16-2010, 09:51 PM   #2
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Hi Brian,

What exactly do you want to achieve?

Can you please elaborate on the latency problems your users experienced?

Please give us a general picture of your environment and the services you would like to support.
 
Old 05-17-2010, 07:16 AM   #3
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Two email servers one loadbalancer performing round robin loadbalancing of http, imap, pop3, and smtp.

My goal is to replicate files between two servers. When email is accessesed (HTTP, IMAP, POP3, or SMTP) I wish to have the changes automatically synchronized with the other server. I then can have a failover setup as if one server failed the other can perform all email functions.

So not necessarily a shared storage place but a replicated file system like (Gluster) would be ideal. Although a shared storage like NFS would not be out of the question.

The latency experience was simply slow load of http access to email. We went from less than a second to load an email to over 8 seconds when using a shared storage like NFS or GFS. Gluster was a bit faster but still way to slow.

Thanks

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Old 05-17-2010, 06:05 PM   #4
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Why not DRBD?

http://www.drbd.org/
 
Old 05-17-2010, 06:57 PM   #5
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I think IBM's gpfs filesystem has a shareware version.
 
  


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