ftpcluster is a prototype FTP cluster project written for gawk
Edit By BS Editor: ftpcluster is a PROTOTYPE FTP Cluster project written for gawk version 3.1.0 or above using a C library extension and an additional program for networking.

To make it short, FTP cluster does not mean a setup where several (more or less identical FTP servers) run in a high availability FAIL over installation.

What I call an FTP cluster is the following: Consider you have 5 Linux boxes. Every machine has a unused 20GB (or better more) harddisk drive. The FTP cluster integrates individual FTP servers running on each machine into a single virtual FTP server. The user doesnt really notice that the server hes using is distributed; is simply SEES a 100GB FTP server. If you decide to add another 80GB drive to the cluster youll get an 180GB FTP server.

In other words: we are talking about a network harddisk stripe that uses FTP as access protocol.

Term definition

Before we continue we should define two terms:

Cluster Server
The term cluster server stands for the server that creates the cluster, the server the user connects to.
Cluster Node
The term cluster nodes refers to the machines that store the files. The nodes are the machines that export their unused harddrives.

Where we are already talking about some basic things: the software on the cluster nodes is standard FTP server software only the cluster server runs a special server software. you can free download ftpcluster 1.0.9 now.