Hi, You might like DRBD better than AFS, I think AFS is more suited, to allow multiple servers to serve /usr/bin, ie static partitions. /var or /home partitions need something different.
Coda does sound good. ...just following these, not using them yet, I think inter-mezzo is too young still, links: http://www.drbd.org/ Drbd is a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid-1. http://www.lustre.org/ The 1.0 release of Lustre is now available, and is suitable for clusters with thousands of nodes and hundreds of terabytes of storage. http://opengfs.sourceforge.net/docs.php The Open Global File System (OpenGFS, or OGFS) is a journaled filesystem that supports simultaneous sharing of a common storage device by multiple computer nodes. http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ Coda is a distributed filesystem with its origin in AFS2. http://www.inter-mezzo.org/docs.html InterMezzo will be suitable for replication of servers, mobile computing, managing system software on large clusters, and for maintenance of high availability clusters. // George On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 01:43:43AM +0200, Andreas John wrote: >Hello! > >Just to be curious: I'm thinking for some time about using andrew fs, >i.e. coda instead of NFS. I don't like NFS, due to complications with >access rights (Yes, I use ugidd). But it sounds like the locking problem >ist also not solved with coda, right? > >rgds, >j. > > >Andrew Miehs wrote: >>I suggest you all read >> >>http://www.porcupine.org/postfix-mirror/newdoc/NFS_README.html >> >>Especially the sentence >>'Thus, Postfix on NFS is slightly less reliable than Postfix on a local >>disk.' >> >>Either something is reliable or not. there is no such thing as slightly >>less reliable. >> >>Especially when it comes to mail. With Maildir you will have less >>problems than with mbox, >>but you still do NOT have atomic transactions, and as such you will at >>some stage >>statistically have a problem. >> > > >-- >Andreas John >net-lab GmbH >Luisenstrasse 30b >63067 Offenbach >Tel: +49 69 85700331 > >http://www.net-lab.net > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- George Georgalis, Architect and administrator, Linux services. IXOYE http://www.galis.org/george cell:646-331-2027 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 5415 2738 61CF 6AE1 E9A7 9EF0 0186 503B 9831 1631 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
