Brief
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Has anyone tried running AFS to/from a home computer,
connected to the world by a relatively high bandwidth connection
such as DSL?
Detail
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I'd like to get DSL... but, as much as I want to be able to "dial out"
from home at high bandwidth, almost as often I find that I would like
to "phone home" from work.
E.g. if I have forgotten a file that I am working on at home,
I would like to be able to connect from work to my home PC,
and get it.
Similarly, if I am at home I would like to be able to access files
at work, edit them, but have the changes "sent" to work implicitly,
so that I do not need to remember to FTP them back.
I.e. I consider making a local copy by FTP or the like undesirable
- it leads to replicated data, copies getting out of synch, etc.
So, let's see what would be on this wishlist:
a) remote access to files
without making logical copies
b) local caching for high performance
c) security
d) bandwidth awareness - "dribble back"
transferring files from local cache to master,
so, e.g. an edit made at night is up to date on
the master by the time I am in my office the next morning.
Similarly, hints designating which files should be sent
to a home system for night work... that's almost like FTP,
but not quite. Even better, an rsync like synchronization
that only propagates the differences between files.
Most of these criteria, a-c, sound very much like AFS.
Q: does AFS support a "dribble back" mode?
So, therefore, I am interested in the following
a) on my home PC, running an AFS client to access the world
Q: across a 768 MBit/s DSL line, would this be totally abhorrent?
b) on my home PC (which I can make run NT or LINUX), running an AFS server
so that I can connect to my home files from work.
Q: does TransArc even begin to think about supporting this?
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Andy "Krazy" Glew, [EMAIL PROTECTED], UW Madison and Intel.
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