Re: Network Filesystem: NFS or Distributed?

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

Stephen Patterson wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:00:15 +0200, Mike Mestnik wrote:
>  
>
> > I see the need for a distributed database and all, what I'm not finding is
> > a step by step howto.  Something on the lines of type this in.  I had
> > installed openafs-fileserver(deb-pkg) on paladen but that didn't seam to
> > help any.  Any one with experiance might help by inproving the pkg's
> > debconfig:)
> >
> > Is NFS still the right choice for me?
> > To set that up, I echo "$path-to-share client(rw)" >> /etc/exports; and
> > apt-get.
> >    
>
> NFS will work, though that is centred on having 1 server and multiple
> clients connected to it. For a more distributed setup, you may find
> coda useful, though when I checked 2+ years ago it only supported
> ~15MB shares.

No, I don't think so.  If you want anything it's OpenAFS for distributed 
network filesystems.

With coda, you have to wait until the entire file is transferred to your 
system before you can see one byte in userspace and that's a design 
decision because of their disconnected operation feature.

OpenAFS has a larger community around it, but it does take a lot of 
setup to get it working (I plan to, but haven't set it up myself yet).

Mike