On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:01:04AM -0700, Tobias Weingartner wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 1, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> >
> > The idea is to configure a directory on a master server to copy the file
> > that are change in it's monitor directory to one or multiple other
> > server(s) in the same directory structure.
>
> nfs? You keep the "master" copy on the nfs server, and the "slave"
> copies on the clients... You "export" the portion that you want to
> be able to "mount". It's all there... :)
>
> Well, ok, except the part about what happens when the server goes
> down.
AFS solves part of the problem, too - if you keep everything read-only,
it can be replicated very easily.
Of course, true multi-writable filesystems would be really, really
cool...
Joachim
