[Linux-cluster] cluster suite and webfarm + GFS ???

Lon Hohberger lhh at redhat.com
Tue Aug 15 17:24:47 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 18:17 -0400, Patton, Matthew F, CTR, OSD-PA&E
wrote:
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> 
> this doesnt solve your problem but why not just leave all httpd
> processes running on all the boxes and put some smarts in the
> loadbalancer such that if a page fetch comes up empty/invalid to mark
> that server as offline. So if GFS goes wondering off, cluster services
> doesnt have to figure if http is valid or not. Obviously cluster
> services needs to figure out that GFS went screwy...

That's another way to do it, and is far simpler than the one I
suggested.  Rgmanager is no longer needed.

-- Lon




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