QC is a big AFS shop. All the servers are Solaris, using Transarc's AFS packages but there are lots of openafs clients. We like the security granularity, delegated administration and fault tolerance: if volumes are properly mirrored you can lose a file server and still be able to read your files. At some point in the future we'll probably migrate the servers to OpenAFS also.
Setting up an AFS cell is not for the faint of heart. The Campbell book (Prentice-Hall ISBN 0-13-802729-3) has a chapter on setting up a cell and lots of other good stuff besides. I strongly recommend it if you want to look at AFS. -Deke On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > Has anyone here built an AFS solution on linux systems? > > I'm trying to find a way to build a file serving solution here that's more > secure and hopefully a little more reliable than NFS that we can deploy on our > Solaris and Linux systems (though Solaris is slowly going away). > > Ideally, I'd like to have failover capability in case one of the servers dies, > too. > > Any pointers to good documentation for doing this on Linux would be much > appreciated. > > TIA, > > Gregory > > -- > Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu > > > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
