> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) > <c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote: > .... >> we are running lustre alongside afs right now. lustre is generally >> much much faster than afs.
Lustre is a replacement for AFS in the same way that a formula 1 race car is a replacement for your family mini-van. There are many similar solutions out there ( GlusterFS, etc... ) that address parts of the problem, but none that I see make any effort at security better than NFS v3. They all pretty much allow the machine to assert any userid it wants. If the problem you have is "Share a user's home directory on a machine that you don't entirely trust root on" the only solution I know of is AFS or NFS V4. And if the problem is "Access a filesystem securely[1] from just about anywhere on almost any OS" then OpenAFS is the only solution I know about. - Booker C. Bense [1]- For the sake of argument, we will assume AFS encryption is "good enough". _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info