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Looking to cluster an FTP server. Right now we do a mix of stuff where we use a few separate servers linked through various hacks, that utilizes VSFTPd heavily for hundreds of television station news websites, where, of course, the current weather maps get uploaded from everywhere, all day, from NOAA and the like. I'd like to move from the current setup to something that's more HA

Hello All, We are using Dovecot 1.1.3 to serve IMAP on a pair of clustered Postfix servers which share a fiber array via the GFS clustered filesystem. This all works very well for the most part, with the exception that certain operations are so inefficient on GFS that they generate significant I/O load and hurt performance. We are using the Maildir format on disk. We're also using

I've tested all these filesystems here: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/filesystem-metadata-overhead/ -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -------------- next part

Hello: I am planning to implement GFS for my university as a summer project. I have 10 servers each with SAN disks attached. I will be reading and writing many files for professor's research projects. Each file can be anywhere from 1k to 120GB (fluid dynamic research images). The 10 servers will be using NIC bonding (1GB/network). So, would GFS be ideal for this? I have been reading a lot

Hi all, If you have had experience hosting GFS/GFS2 on CentOS machines could you share you general impression on it? Was it realiable? Fast? Any issues or concerns? Also, how feasible is it to start it on just one machine and then grow it out if necessary? Thanks. Boris.

while i'm on a Centos5 kick, I was just curious if I simply needed to add a repo or if building these was a matter of waiting in terms of Centos5. Am trying hard to stay away from Fedora if possible... -krb

Hi, after reading the docs (no man page) and seeing a few example howtos, I see none for Centos specifically. I hereby offer to write this and even host it, and any other wiki-able howto you want, if you can school me on the first few steps relevant to how to link up the current rpmforge rpm for RHEL4-64. See, right now, the one for centos loads into the /usr/share/doc, which is an odd place

Is it difficult to build cobbler on Centos or should I just go with Fedora on this one? Basically, if you have experience succeeeding at this, can you drop me a link to a Howto or describe the issues? I am only writing this because I tried, and ran into quite a few dependency issues with upstream/downstream packages, and would rather concentrate on just getting a nice working Cobbler (and

> From: Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot > > > Yes. Go with a cluster filesystem such as OCFS or GFS2 and an inexpensive SAN > storage unit that supports mixed SSD and spinning storage such as the Nexsan > SATABoy with 2GB cache: http://www.nexsan.com/sataboy.php I can't speak for

Hi David, Also consider using the mount option to specify backup server via 'backupvolfile-server=server2:server3' (you can define more but I don't thing replica volumes greater that 3 are usefull (maybe in some special cases). In such way, when the primary is lost, your client can reach a backup one without disruption. P.S.: Client may 'hang' - if the primary server got

I just spend a few hours working with Redhat Cluster Manager. After working through some things that deal with Centos versus the *upstream provider*, I started configuring a cluster. Even to the point of using HP ILO as the fence. Anyone using this in production? With GFS ? I have used Heartbeat V1 in the past and I am deploying a new colo so I am looking at options. Any feedback is welcome.

Hello list, I want to use shared volumes between severall vm''s and defenetly don''t want to use NFS or Samba! So i have three options: 1. simulated(software-) iscsi 2. GFS 3. OCFS2 What do you suggest and why? Kind regards, Florian ********************************************************************************************** IMPORTANT: The contents of this email and any

Hello, I'm deploing a new email cluster using Dovecot over GFS2. Actually I'm using courier over GFS. Actually I'm testing Dovecot with these parameters: mmap_disable = yes mail_fsync = always mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_nfs_index = yes lock_method = fcntl Are they correct? RedHat GFS support mmap, so is it better to enable it or leave it disabled? The documentation suggest the

Hello list, we continue our tests using Dovecot on a RHEL 6.1 Cluster Backend with GFS2, also we are using dovecot as a Director for user node persistence, everything was ok until we started stress testing the solution with imaptest, we had many deadlocks, cluster filesystems corruptions and hangs, specially in index filesystem, we have configured the backend as if they were on a NFS like setup

Hello, maybe there is someone they can help and answer a question why i get these network screen on my ctdb clusters. I have two ctdb clusters. One physical and one in a vmware enviroment. So when i transfer any files (copy) in a samba share so i get such network curves with performance breaks. I dont see that the transfer will stop but why is that so? can i change anything or does anybody know

How does one configure a fence device in the form of a NIC card in centos 5? Is the gnbd item relevant to this? I have posted the question to linux-cluster also, but they are much less active overall, -so if you have info, massively appreciated... -karl

I am trying to get up geo replication between two gluster volumes I have set up two replica 2 arbiter 1 volumes with 9 bricks [root at gfs1 ~]# gluster volume info Volume Name: gfsvol Type: Distributed-Replicate Volume ID: c2fb4365-480b-4d37-8c7d-c3046bca7306 Status: Started Snapshot Count: 0 Number of Bricks: 3 x (2 + 1) = 9 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: gfs2:/gfs/brick1/gv0 Brick2:

I verified with my vendor that indeed we are using an ATI ES1000 Video Card, not an Nvidia as previously thought. I am getting the following error -any suggestions? [38] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b403 (0x4) IX[B] [39] -1 0 0x0000b480 - 0x0000b487 (0x8) IX[B] [40] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b803 (0x4) IX[B] [41] -1 0 0x0000b880 - 0x0000b887

I am trying to use dovecot. I've got a GFS2 shared volume on two servers with dovecot running on both. On one server at a time, it works. The test I am trying is to attach two mail programs (MUA) via IMAPS (Thunderbird and Evolution as it happens). I've attached one mail program to each IMAPS server. I am trying to move emails around in one program (from folder to folder), and then

Hi. The short story... Rush job, never done clustered file systems before, vlan didn't support multicast. Thus I ended up with drbd working ok between the two servers but cman / gfs2 not working, resulting in what was meant to be a drbd primary/primary cluster being a primary/secondary cluster until the vlan could be fixed with gfs only mounted on the one server. I got the single server