Matt M was once rumoured to have said: > At 15:59 17/05/2002, Rob B wrote: > >At 15:36 17/05/2002, Gareth Walters sent this up the stick: > >>G'day all, > >> > >>I happen to have a small cluster of a few machines that are used for > >>testing, they boot from a floppy and mount root via NFS. > >> > >>I am now allowed to use their hard disks, I was wondering if there is a > >>way > >>I can turn the disks into some kind > >>of distributed network attached storage so users can access it as one > >>large > >>temporary disk (don't care if its slow). > >> > >>I have had a bit of a search and a look around on the 'net but don't see > >>anyway of doing this, yet. > >> > >>Does anyone have any ideas how I might go about it? > > > >I think OpenAFS could do this, but don't quote me :) > > > > It can to a degree. As far as I know, you can't put a single volume on more > than one server (you can replicate it, but that's not the same..). Also, my > experience with OpenAFS is that the clients are all quite buggy.
However, you can create any number of volumes and mount them anywhere within the AFS tree you like, so its effectively the same. As for the clients, the i386-linux client seems to be perfectly stable, as is the server, just building the kernel module is a pain in the ass. alpha-linux client has bugs in klog. WinNT client works, but occasionally does weird stuff. WinNT server is broken. Haven't tried it on ppc-linux. AFS does, however, have an administrative overhead because of the way its designed. Sadly, the NT Client includes some useful admin tools which the unix clients don't. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
