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1. Bert-Jan said

   on March 31, 2010

   I use memcache and gearman in a few of my websites, but mogileFS poses a serious problem: it only runs on Linux and I've moved to FreeBSD some time ago (much easier to maintain IMO).
   To be precise: perlbal, the proxy it uses, only runs on Linux. I can installl mogilefs from ports with little trouble, but it doesn't work because perlbal keeps crashing. Something about the sendfile implementation not being cross-platform.
   So for now, I'm stuck with an rsync cronjob every 15 minutes to spread uploaded content to the other frontend servers, and having the loadbalancer (varnish) check for 404's from upload directories and re-requesting them from the primary frontend server which receives all uploads.

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