(Illustration by Gaich Muramatsu)
Hi, We discussed the requests on the lists for large servers and perhaps we have a simple but good solution. I already explained that during the next few months we can lift the scalability of a single server from 10 to something like 50GB (this figure depends on the average size of files). A second things we have boiled up is that in fact it is not difficult to run multiple coda servers on a single machine - much like one runs multiple NFS and httpd daemons. Initially we hope to release a server that can run on multihomed boxes - you run one codasrv for each home. Eventually we might run them on a single home with multiple port numbers, but this requires many more changes. So if you want 1/2 a TB: run 10 of these. An advantage of this solution is that there is containment of problems: if one server goes down the remaining servers can keep running - so much of your files remain available. I've made the changes we need for this, and I'm testing it. It's not hard: all that needs to be done falls into two issues: - bind the UDP networking to a specific IP address - keep the config files of the servers apart - at least if they are private to an individual server. - Peter -Received on 1999-05-12 10:11:36