Re: [Moosefs-users] ChunkServer in different Level

[Laurent W. <lw...@hy...>]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:47:21 +0200
ro...@mm... wrote:

> Davies Liu wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Ken <ken...@gm...> wrote:
> >> I noticed the go-mfsclient in this mail-list before, we also write a
> >> moose client in C++. ;-)
> >> It work find when mfsmaster failover.
> >
> > It's the most interesting part, how do you failover mfsmaster ?
> > I have tried the method with ucarp,  provided by Thomas S Hatch,
> > It's seemed not stable enough, failed sometimes.
> >
> > Before a stable solution come up, we decide to do manually fail-over by
> > ops,
> > and do not deploy it in heavy online system.
> 
> Sorry for intervening and excuse a moosefs newbie question.
> Why are you concerned so much about mfsmaster failing? How often does this
> happen?
> 
> I am considering moosefs for a small lan of 15 users, mainly for
> aggregating unused storage space from various machines. Googling suggested
> moosefs is rather robust, but this thread suggest otherwise.
> Have I misunderstood something?
> 
> -Stathis
I have mfs running for errrr, something like 1 year and a half, and
mfsmaster never failed a single time. The only times master was
restarted was to switch to a newer version.
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