Clustering and Ferret possible?

Is it possible to have one main ‘index’, perhaps on a shared network
drive, and have lots of instances of rails accessing it (though
obviously with one db)?

On Apr 2, 2007, at 16:46, Alex MacCaw wrote:

Is it possible to have one main ‘index’, perhaps on a shared network
drive, and have lots of instances of rails accessing it (though
obviously with one db)?

yes, omdb.org is doing exactly that… and AAF allows you to
index everything via a ‘ferret server’.

you can get more information about the implementation
of the omdb.org ferret server (via backgroundrb) at

http://bugs.omdb.org/browser/trunk/lib/omdb/ferret

Ben