RE: [MLUG] distributed filesystems

["Dooley, Ryan" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I played with OpenAFS about a year ago.  For the most part it worked;
however, volumes were limited to 2GB in size. I've not tried intermezzo,
but if it's still written in perl and kernel modules, I'd wait for the C
port (they, the intermezzo folks) talked about it last year at LISA.

If you want to pay for a Linux, clustered file system, GFS from Sistina
is the way to go (especially if you bundle it with say linux-ha or some
sort of load-balancer (F5/Alteon/etc.)

Cheers,
	Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Buford [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:15 AM
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Subject: [MLUG] distributed filesystems

Has anyone played with any of the distributed filesystems like 
InterMezzo or AFS? I'm trying to configure a fairly simple cluster while

avoiding the need for physical shared storage. I could just stick with 
node-node rsync'ing which would be pretty fast as they share a Gb 
ethernet port x-over'd. But then I would be stuck with either having a 
process watch for changes, or use a cron job to sync every minute...

All these machines have to do is provide DNS and external SSH access, so

there's not a huge requirement for sync'ing large numbers of files. But,

I want to make sure administration stays to a minimum.

Any and all suggestions are welcome.

Rick

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