On Jul 2, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Atom Powers wrote: > I didn't see AFS mentioned yet. My, admittedly incomplete, > understanding of afs is that it provides a single namespace (directory > tree) to all clients but the files themselves may be stored on a local > or remote server; a bit like Microsoft DFS. > > Would this not unify the storage while maintaining local access speeds > for files created locally, and still allow any host/client the ability > to access any file on any server?
You really don't want to make every server a fileserver in AFS though, the way the OP requested. File servers are special in AFS in that you have to carefully (and manually) manage backup copies of volumes so there's always n+1; if a volume with no backup copies goes away the whole cell comes to a screeching halt. - Eric Sorenson - N37 17.255 W121 55.738 - http://twitter.com/ ahpook - _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
