On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Stan Hoeppner <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert LeBlanc put forth on 4/11/2010 8:19 PM: >> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 9:03 AM, ravi channavajhala < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> WAFS (Wide Area File System) appliances can be very well deployed for this >>> sort of thing precisely. Unfortunately, I don't know of any opensource >>> project for WAFS. However, commercial solutions such as Riverbed, Expand >>> Networks, CISCO/WAFS, Juniper/Peribit do exist. >>> >>> >> So far, this is the direction that we may go. We have looked at a Riverbed >> product, it's good to know alternatives. This may not be as much of an issue >> as it was in the past as I believe we my get a network upgrade that will >> negate the need for this. > > I would think it would be cheaper and more straight forward to replace the > GbE port on each end of the fiber link with a 10GbE port than to deal with > the complexity of caching and replication, or other such options, especially > for two buildings on the same campus. The fiber link is on campus and thus > you control any right-of-way issues, correct?
I'd like to know if anyone else thinks this can work as well as a method with write back caching etc... Regards, /rkc -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
