On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:01:01PM +0100, Per-Erik Persson wrote:
> AFS would handle your storage in a redundant and distributed way where
> you "easily" can add and remove a machine.
> But this is not a thing you set up in an afternoon :-)
> People seems to be afraid of it since it's complexity.
> But when the work is done you wonder why people pay huge amounts for NAS
> and similar things that sometimes doesn't work nearly as good as the
> glossy brochure promised.
> It scales good but the performance I don't know about.
>
> A while ago there where some discussions on the list about openafs, has
> someone written a complete or at least half done installation guide yet?
I am sorry, could you elaborate? I recall, from my last look at OpenAFS,
that there was no way to replicate a live, read-write filesystem in
real time.
It did offer distributed/redundant read-only filesystems, and it seemed
quite easy to add some servers - but I saw no distributed, redundant
read-write filesystems. Am I just stupid? Behind? (Admittedly, the
OpenAFS documentation on the site seems out of date...)
There should be a semi-automatic installation script in the archives,
no more than a week (and probably much less) after 3.8-release came out.
Joachim
