[ale] Redundant File Servers

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Tue Sep 14 09:01:31 EDT 2004


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have been doing some research about either:
> a failover pair of fileservers, possibly load-balanced
> across the pair 
> or 
> a high-availability load-balanced cluster of file servers

More specifics:

* do you want active-active (both nodes serving) or active-passive (one node 
takes over when the other dies)
* fileserving how? NFS? AFS? Samba? ftp? web?

later,
chris



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