My manager asked me if I could a mirror copy of our /var/mail on another 
system, just in case the system went down. He suggested that Windows has DFS 
(Distributed File System) and I said I would look into it.

Over the weekend I thought of CacheFS which comes will solaris which allows you 
to have a local copy of a network drive, so that it can improve the "NFS server 
performance and scalability by reducing server and network load.". My joy was 
short lived when I relaises that when the server goes down your local copy of 
that NFS is not accessable.

I don't see why CacheFS can not work in this situation, so that if there is a 
local version of the file use it and not just hang.......

Any thoughts or has any one got a good Solaris/OpenSolaris solution to my 
problem.

Andrew
 
 
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