<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Sounds like something to investigate. Not sure we have any SAN available. Anything SANish run on Linux. <br><div> </div><span style="font-family: courier;">--- </span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Wayne Johnson, | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">There are two kinds of people: Those</span> </span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">3943 Penn Ave. N. | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">who say to God, "Thy will be done," </span></span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95,
0);">and those to whom God says, "All right, </span></span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">(612) 522-7003 | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis</span><br></span><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Shawn Fertch <sfertch@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list@mn-linux.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, March 12, 2010 11:10:57 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [tclug-list] GFS over a WAN<br></font><br>
<p>I would not use gfs over wan. Instead, look to frame based replication if it's on a san</p>
<p></p><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 12, 2010 10:36 AM, "Wayne Johnson" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:wdtj@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:wdtj@yahoo.com">wdtj@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Our company was just acquired by one in TX. We are now in the position of having to keep a local and remote linux (Centos54) file servers synced up. We have an automated build process that spits out about a 4GB build every night or even more often at times. This is now being done on the corporate network. We have local test facilities that use these builds, as well as corporate facilities that need access to our local resources. It's all getting to be pretty messy. <br>
<br>We are trying to keep the file servers synced up using rsync. Unfortunately sometime it takes a while for this huge amount of data to be synced up, or worse, someone makes a change to the local server's files, which gets overwritten on the next rsync.<br>
<br>I was wondering if there
was a way to create a common file system between both sites (here in MN and TX). GFS sounds like it might work, but I have not found anyone who claims to have done this on Google. I remember there use to be AFS which worked in a similar fashion.<br>
<br>Guess I'm hoping to set something up where files will exist on both networks. When a file is opened, the network compares the local and remote file systems and the newest version is used. If the remote is the newest, it's transferred to the local as it is used so the local cache is updated and the next use will be entirely local. Am I dreaming?<br>
<br>Anyone have any ideas?<br><br>Thanks.<br><div> </div><span style="font-family: courier;">--- </span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Wayne Johnson, | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">There are two
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<span style="font-family: courier;">Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">and those to whom God says, "All right, </span></span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">(612) 522-7003 | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis</span><br>
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