Hi misc, I come to you because my enterprise will need some distributed file system in the mounths to come. We need to distribute a big file system between 2 main sites, accessed by multiples clients spreaded across differents sites. A client is nearly always a thinclient running RDP to some TSE cluster for office'ing. We got 1 TSE farm on each main site. And a file server on each site too (actually a HS20 blade running Windows 2003). We do not synchronize these file server, which make them fault-untolerant. Each contains user profiles & documents. The Microsoft solution, DFS, seems ok but I'd like to know if AFS could be smartly used in that case. So, I'd like to know if OpenBSD's AFS could do the following (I assume that our actual file servers are replaced by OpenBSD AFS cells) : * Gently synchronize/distribute 2 physical file servers in 1 logical file server (real time is not needed) * Does it scale well (new AFS cells, new clients) ? * Does it support a quota mechnism ? * Implementation and Administration cost (we are 2 bright guys :) ? * What about the file permissions ? Is that Windows 2k3-friendly (ACL) ? * Why OpenBSD devs re-writed an AFS instead of reusing OpenAFS ? * Integration with ActiveDirectory for authentication ? * Recovery of a lost cell ?
Wow... Hard work to come :) Best regards, Bruno.
