[Gllug] new project HA at home and away

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Thu, November 18, 2010 05:44, Justin Perreault wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking to improve the user experience for me and my partner as we
> work and play accross three locations. We have two desktops and a laptop.
>
> What I want to do is enable either of us to login to any of the three
> locations and have our individual desktop available. So far I am thinking;
> 1. each hardware system installed as server that is part of a group that
> sync with each other
> 2. a virtual machine that provides our day to day working environment
> 3. each machine should be able to function on its own and the user will
> aware of the limits of syncing
> 4. currently most comfortable with GDM on Fedora.
>
> From my research so far I think I am looking at a cluster that is to
> provide a fail over(high availability) environment.
>
> I believe there will be some additional backup due to the redundency of
> the VMs.

>
> Am I crazy thinking this might work?
>
> Due to the common use of many of the words and phrases I find furthing my
> research to challenging. I am hoping to get some targeted phrases to help
> me further my research.
>
> Many thanks if you have read this far. All comments appreciated.
>
> Justin
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You could look into the much underrated AFS (Andrew File System). I think
it would be good for such a setup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System

Regards,
Salsaman.


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