Re: Replication VS Cluster

[a.smith]

Quoting Jangita <jangita@stripped>:

>
> Simply put: I want a solution that ensures that server 2 has all the  
> data at server 1 at any point in time; say server 1 suddenly fell  
> into a pond :) . I wouldnt want to open server 2 and find the last  
> insert/update/delete missing...
>

Ok so that rules out any asynchronous replication (MySQL replication  
for example).
So options available would include, HA clustering with a shared fibre  
channel RAID array. Or synchronous replication over the network using  
something like DRBD or HAST (on FreeBSD), plus any other suggestions  
from others... :P