Gabriel Wicke wrote:
Nooo- the opposite! Apaches don't use their disk but need a lot of cpu, the fileservers will need little cpu and a good RAID1. It's only about 2 Gigs of pics at the moment (are there sound files yet?), let's just store them on the DB servers' filesystem. Those will be connected with heartbeat anyway, no extra work for failover. If wikipedia suddenly starts to use a lot of big media files we can easily move the files to separate servers.
I agree. For now I will forget about separate fileserver machines.
--Jimbo