Re: [OSR-users] What can Open-sharedroot be used for?

[Marc G. <gr...@at...>]

Hi,
let me put it this way.
The concept and the usage pattern of an open-sharedroot cluster can be 
described as follows (BTW we call the base technology the Diskless Shared 
Root Cluster; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskless_Shared_Root_Cluster):

1. Give one or more node concurrent access to a shared storage. That can 
either be a cluster filesystem like GFS/OCFS2/GFS2(not yet) on top of "any" 
blocklevel protokoll like parallel SCSI/iSCSI/SCSI via Fibre Channel and the 
like or a distributed network filesystem like NFS.

2. Share any valuable data between all nodes. In this case the rootfilesystem 
is the focus.

3. Establish a collection of tools and design practices to build such a 
cluster (for example handle hostdependent files, initrd or build cluster 
applications)

If we transfer it to your setup (as far as I understand your setup) there 
should be not difference between a node and a sharedroot server. That means 
apache/php/mysql and any other application runs on any open-sharedroot 
node/server. It can run multiple times (if it is capable of being 
loadbalanced over multiple servers - like apache with php) or one time (if 
not - like mysql).

I hope that explains things a bit.

Regards Marc.

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On Friday 11 July 2008 22:06:02 br...@wi... wrote:
> Hi guys,
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> I'm new to SSI so I would like to know if I could use open-sharedroot for
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> the following:
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> Let's say I have an open-sharedroot server with apache, php, mysql, etc
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> running. So once I have a node booting from the openshared-root server,
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> would that node be able to use apache, mysql, php, since those applications
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> are running in the open-sharedroot server? Will that node be using its own
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> resources (cpu, RAM, etc) or will it be using the openshared-root server's
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> resources?
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> If open-sharedroot is not really used in that way, could guys let me know
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> what could I be using open-sharedroot for?
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> Thanks in advance!
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>
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Gruss / Regards,

Marc Grimme
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