On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:54:02 +0100 Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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...) I'm not sure I fully understand exactly what AFS offers in this area, but it comes with a lot of extra stuff that I don't need, and also seems very complicated. I think I'll persevere with dupfs/LD_PRELOAD, and see how well it works in practice. Thanks, - Jules -- http://www.op59.net/
