Dear Craig,
we are running some OSD-Servers on GPFS. The OSD-servers are in the production-run sense comparable to fileservers and since GPFS is POSIX-compatible (dont know to how many %), everything is fine. However, we run those servers as single-server GPFS. They are server and client alike. I don't see any major issues with running AFS on top of GPFS, but ... - GPFS is more likely to hang as any other network-FS compared to a local FS. - not sure how to deal with the /vicep - naming convention ( can you have two /vicepa partitions somehow?) I can check with the GPFS-admins here. HTH, Christof Am Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:11:37 +0000 schrieb Craig Strachan <c...@inf.ed.ac.uk>: > Dear All, > > The Central Computing Service at Edinburgh University is introducing > a new University wide filesystem intended for research based data. We > in Informatics have been asked about the possibility of us using of > some of this new file space to either expand our existing cell or > (more likely) set up a new cell for the whole University to use. > Unfortunately, this new research file system is based on GPFS and so > this would involve us running AFS on top of GPFS. > > Does anyone on this list have experience of running AFS on top of > GPFS which they would be willing to share with us? Failing that, > would anyone like to make an educated guess as to the problems we are > likely to encounter if we try this? > > Any advice would be appreciated, > > Craig. > --- > Craig Strachan, Computing Officer, > School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh > > > > > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info