From d352523c215e84b501840b5dc59c4ba913b6a502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Axel Kittenberger Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 21:31:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] GlusterFS --- README | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 316d69c..30bf1ab 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ WHEN NOT TO USE: * File with active file handles (e.g. database files) * Directories where many changes occur (like mail or news servers) - In these cases e.g. DRBD (see http://www.linux-ha.org/DRBD) might be better + In these cases e.g. DRBD (see http://www.drbd.org/) might be better for you. COMPARISONS: @@ -58,9 +58,10 @@ COMPARISONS: This is another interesting idea is to write a daemon that provides a shadow file system through fuse. When accessing a file the data is synced to local file as well as the remote file. Whit this approach inotify could - be replaced. BindFS (see http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/partel/bindfs/) - does this for local mirroring. We discarded this idea because it would - affect performance of normal operations in a negative way. + be replaced. GlusterFS does exactly this and more (see http://www.gluster.org). + BindFS (see http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/partel/bindfs/) does this for local + mirroring. We discarded this idea because it would affect performance of + normal operations in a negative way. Lsyncd vs. cron: