Re: 64-bit mirrors

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I've been working for the past couple of months on building a new
>> machine for
>> pgFoundry and to be a PostgreSQL mirror. It's hard for me to justify,
>> though, NOT going Opteron.
>>
>> So, my question is, if I put pgFoundry on an Opteron machine, is there
>> another
>> 64-bit machine in the postgresql network I could mirror it to in case of
>> failure? This seems better to me than letting our 32-bit dependancy
>> drag on
>> because we can't afford to upgrade all the machines at once.
>
>
> Is there anything that has to be mirrored that is 64 vs 32bit dependent?

Well the PostgreSQL data directory for example. You can't take a data
dir from an i586 and push it to a x86_64 compiled postgresql.

As far as the PHP itself that should not matter.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> Isn't everything PHP based? It should just be a matter of mirroring the
> specific PHP files themselves, with the 'mirror server' having the same
> overall configuration as the master ...
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