RE: [LI] Clustering

["VIBHU RISHI" <vibhu.rishi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gaurav
	Let me get this straight. What you want is two comps which keep backups of
each other, so that in the case of failure of one, the other can continue
the normal functioning. You are having redundant systems for more security.
Am I right ?
	If this is all you want then, this is not clustering. rather you want
redundant systems.
	On the otherhand, if you want both sustems to be running as one
 muti-processor systems) then you can call it clustering. For more
information on clustering see the HOW-TO on Beauwolf project in any Linux
documentation that you can get your hands onto.
	Vibhu..


¤ -----Original Message-----
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¤ [mailto:owner-linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gaurav
¤ Bhatnagar
¤ Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 7:42 PM
¤ To: linuxindia
¤ Subject: [LI] Clustering
¤
¤
¤ Hi all,
¤ We have a nt based lab in our dept. where we run linux on one server while
¤ theres a PDC and one BDC for NT. For some reason, the people from whom we
¤ got our machines and servers (names not disclosed !;-) insisted on
¤ installing clutering for NT. Essentially it means that if there 2 srevers
¤ are part of the NT cluster then should one of the server crash
¤ the other one
¤ can seamlessly take over. Now it turns out that we have no cluster aware
¤ software and the good old ordinary softwares cant run properly with
¤ clustering on NT (sounds familar huh?) what we wanted was that the home
¤ directories of the users could be on the cluster's shared disks so that if
¤ one server crashes people can still access their homes. The guy
¤ who had come
¤ over claims its impossible on NT!! I want to know if it is
¤ possible on Linux
¤ or not? So then we can run samba along with clustering. Also im
¤ not sure if
¤ im using the term "clustering" in the wrong context? If somebody has some
¤ something of this sort then please send me some pointers!
¤ Thanks in advance!
¤ Gaurav
¤
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