3 messages in com.mysql.lists.clusterram required
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christian johansson28 Mar 2007 12:27 
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Apostolos Pantsiopoulos29 Mar 2007 12:31 
Subject:ram required
From:christian johansson (malt@gmail.com)
Date:03/28/2007 12:27:24 PM
List:com.mysql.lists.cluster

Hi list

Are the storage nodes on a mysql cluster _required_ to store all the data in ram?

I have a pretty large db in a regular single machine database right now that I would like to create a cluster for instead. My db is on about 13gb, grows quickly, and can't easily be trimmed down.

I have 2 servers that I would like to use as storage nodes, but they only have 4 gb of ram each. Plenty of hd space though.

Does this mean I can't make a cluster on these two?

Or should I just be looking at doing replication instead? If I understand things right, the failover functionality of a cluster are much better than that of replicated servers.

Thanks Christian