For a while I've been toying with an idea in my mind and I thought hey, maybe you can dissuade me... :)
It seems to me that it would be in interesting idea make something that looks like an AFS fileserver on the 'rx side' but which doesn't actually have any /vicepx disks, but is instead very similar to a Google File System "master server" which parcels the actual file bits out to a series of GFS "chunkservers". The idea behind GFS is that these file chunks are stored on multiple (N, usually 3) chunkservers -- so you can lose N-1 of them and still be up and have your data. And the chunkservers could even be geographically separated. Further I wonder if this would obviate or greatly diminish the need for tape-based backups (which I don't know about you, but we have grown to loath). So, totally stupid or what? John _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
