On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:58:27 +0200 Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:07:49PM +0100, ed wrote: > > FWIW there is something called DRBD which is considered the closest > > thing to RAID-0 over a network, it can fail sometimes with flaky > > results in testing. I have found it to be troublesom when problems > > occur during sync. > > > > Do you or anyone else know of anything that works better? > > DRBD is RAID-1, actually (with n-way replication under development > last time I checked). I assume that was just a typo. ;-) Yeah was just a brain fart. > I can't say much more. Testing showed that running DRBD is possible > and replication does occur, under fairly non-loaded 'lab' conditions > and only testing failover in case of manually failing drives. However, > I ultimately decided not to pursue DRBD further. > > I haven't looked at AFS too much, but seem to recall not looking into > it further after realizing the Kerberos auth issue you mentioned. AFS client's don't need Kerberos, I think there's some means of turning it off at the bosserver, but I havn't yet got a lab set up just yet, unfortunately AFS demands a lot of setup before you can really know what you're doing. FWIW don't bother getting the Managing Andrew File System book, Esther Filderman <spl> does not recommend it, and she's probably the most famous person on the subject. I you know any good distributed file system software let me know please, it's quite a nagging hole for me. -- Regards, Ed http://www.usenix.org.uk
