Does anyone know if there is a filesystem virtualization solution for Apple's AFP filesharing protocol?
By "filesystem virtualization", I mean the ability to present multiple filesystems spread across multiple servers as one large fileshare. The AFS filesystem, I believe, introduced the notion, but Micro$oft supports the idea with their DFS filesystem, which is, I believe, layered on top of CIFS. For NFS, there are filesystem virtualization appliances that one can purchase, and one can also implement filesystem virtualization for NFS on the cheap via clever use of the automounter and symbolic links. Whither virtualization with AFP? |>oug P.S. Spanning one huge filesystem across RAIDs using XSAN or another SAN-based technology does not sound particularly appealing to me as alternative. I don't actually want one huge filesystem, as that approach is pretty terrible for disaster recovery, fsck-like processes, and the like. Filesystem virtualization, instead, presents many filesystems as one large virtual filesystem, but underneath the covers there are still many separate filesystems. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
