Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 2: How does it scale?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:04 AM 8/29/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> on 8/26/00 5:44 AM, Colin Smith at colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> <snip>
> >> The possibility of a journaling file systems available is worth it.
> >> Those are developed only on 2.4. And mips processors in general will be
> >> better supported in 2.4.
> >
> > You might also want to try the drbd module and heartbeat stuff for high
> > availability. Don't think they are available for the 2.0 kernel.
>
> Heartbeat is not a kernel level implementation.  The watchdog timer code is
> part of the kernel (a module), but is purely optional and just resets the
> machine if it can't get a heartbeat from itself.  But heartbeat works on its
> own.
>
> I would debate idea of creating a HA cluster out of Qube2s, but that is
> another thread.

Err I'm talking about a journalling FS not high availability.
You know, when te power goes out the machines boots almost instantly 
without a lengthy fs check.
This takes 2 minutes on my qube2 _without_ a error and I have 2 15Gb drives 
in my normal intel server.
If those are dirty it takes a whopping 20 minutes before I can continue.
I like the less then 10 second wait though :-)

I see no real reason for a cluster of Qubes unless you consider it using it 
for a light source ;-)
They give a really bright glow.

Bye

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