Re: [Sks-devel] Clustering (Was: New Keyservers and Dumps)

[Michael Jones]

I've setup my cluster with separate filesystems, as I believe locks are
created on the bdb so the sks instances would lock each other if they
shared, otherwise i would have used nfs or gluster.

Kind Regards,
Mike


On 24/08/18 10:36, Gabor Kiss wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
>
>> Are the servers clustered in any way? In my experience each site needs
>> at least 3 nodes to ensure proper operation (mainly if A and B are
>> gossipping C can still respond to requests, depending on the amount of
>> traffic / speed of the node to return more is better)
>>
>> So clustered setup is more important than large number of individual
>> servers, as there is no retry functionality in dirmngr.
> A question:
> Does an SKS cluster need multiple storage space,
> or nodes can share the database?
>
> Cheers
>
> Gabor