I get the impression that the primary use of openafs is as a user storage server, so far I have not received any feedback. Am I misunderstanding the appropriate usage for openafs? :)
Another note about our setup, the cluster would be accessing openafs on a read-only basis. We don't have the resources to afford a SAN and NFS cannot be made fault tolerant, so I would appreciate any sort of feedback especially people that have run openafs under high load. Thanks, Atle On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Atle Veka wrote: > > Hey all, > > I have been going through the openafs docs the past couple of days as I am > hoping it will enable us to streamline our setup. So, before I dig deeper > into the system I'd like to see if anyone on the list uses openafs in a > similar manner or if it is simply not recommended. > > Let me explain our setup briefly; We have 17 load balanced FreeBSD servers > in the cluster. 5 of those backend servers do ~20 requests per second (PHP > - each hit has the potential of accessing multiple files, anywhere from > 1-10) while the other 12 do ~120 requests per second (graphics - ~5000 > B/request) at peak. Each individual backend server has an identical set of > content/data distributed via rsync. > > Now, if openafs would be able to serve this cluster with say 2-3 > replicated content machines, that would make me very happy! > > Some questions: > 1) While FreeBSD (4.10-RELEASE) is required in the cluster, Linux would be > OK to use for the openafs server. What is the recommended OS as far as the > server goes? > > 2) Am I right in reading that openafs does its own traffic distribution? > In other words, we would not need a separate load balancer for the openafs > servers? > > Comments, configuration tricks, etc, are greatly appreciated. :) > > > Thanks! > > Atle > - > Flying Crocodile Inc, Unix Systems Administrator > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
