On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Les Mikesell wrote:
From: D. Hageman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Subject: Re: File::Redundant
Interesting ... not sure if implementing this in this fashion would be
worth the overhead. If such a need exists I would imagine that
would have
choosen a more appropriate OS level solution. Think OpenAFS.
This is off-topic of course, but you often don't get
unbiased opinions from the specific list. Does anyone
have success or horror stories about AFS in a distributed
production site? Oddly enough the idea of using it
just came up in my company a few days ago to publish
some large data sets that change once daily to several
locations. I'm pushing a lot of stuff around now with
rsync which works and is very efficient, but the ability
to move the source volumes around transparently and keep
backup snapshots is attractive.
I haven't personally used AFS on a large scale. I have setup several
small tests beds with it to test the feasibility of using it at my job. I
work for the EECS Department at the Universty of Kansas, so we have a
fairly large hetergenous computer environment. My tests showed that at
the time, support for Windows wasn't quite up to par yet. The *nix code
base performed quite well. I say at the time because since then, the
OpenAFS project has pushed out several more versions of the code base so
support might be better. I did have the pleasure of talking with a guy
from the University of Missouri that was telling me they have AFS deployed
on a very large scale there and were very pleased with it (I think they
were using the commercial version to support the Windows side). AFS
definately has some promise and if it weren't for the hetergenous issues
(and a few non-technical issues) we would be using it here.
To avoid being completely off topic - I should point out that AFS modules
exist for Perl and a mod_afs exist for Apache. ;-)
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