On 17 September 2014 20:10:57 CEST, "Hervé Guillemet" <he...@guillemet.org> wrote: >Le 16/09/2014 21:07, James a écrit : >> >> By now many are familiar with my keen interest in clustering gentoo >> systems. So, what most cluster technologies use is a distributed file >> system on top of the local (HD/SDD) file system. Naturally not >> all file systems, particularly the distributed file systems, have >> straightforward instructions. Also, an device file system, such as >> XFS and a distibuted (on top of the device file system) combination >> may not work very well when paired. So a variety of testing is >> something I'm researching. Eliminiation of either file system >> listed below, due to Gentoo User Experience is most welcome >information, >> as well as tips and tricks to setting up any file system. > >Hi James, > >Have you found this document : > >http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00789086/PDF/a_survey_of_dfs.pdf > >On a related matter, I'd like to host my own file server on a dedicated >box so that I can access my working files from serveral locations. I'd >like it to be fast and secure, and I don't mind if the files are >replicated on each workstation. What would be the better tools for this >?
AFS has caching and can survive temporary disappearance of the server. For me, I need to be able to provide Samba filesharing on top of that layer on 2 different locations as I don't see the network bandwidth to be sufficient for normal operations. (ADSL uplinks tend to be dead slow) -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
