openAFS

bootiack · 2007-05-10 22:37:59

I has a great job interview with a guy named Polek who told me how he boot diskless boxes that connect to a raided backend using openAFS. He said once he worked out the drivers for the network cards on the blade 3U 14 blade servers he uses that only use 6amps, he had them mount a 'local' disk over the network with the openAFS thing. Does Arch have anything that does this? This sounds like a killer setup, esp. since openAFS allows his setup to have no one box cause failure. slick... I then chatten on IRC on freenode in the openAFS channel and a guy told me that iSCSI can offer some of the same benefits......

ataraxia · 2007-05-11 02:10:48

OpenAFS is very powerful, and very useful, but...
- it's very old, and not such clean code
- it's very heavy, with its own kernel module
- it's deeply tied into Kerberos, and some parts are basically still krb4

I work at Carnegie Mellon University, where AFS was invented, and know some of its maintainers. Even some of our own people avoid it ;(

All that said, you can run OpenAFS on Arch, but you'll have to build it yourself from AUR.

cactus · 2007-05-11 02:50:54

glusterfs looks pretty neat.
Haven't tried using it yet though. It could be horrible for all I know.

Arch Linux

#1 2007-05-10 22:37:59

openAFS

#2 2007-05-11 02:10:48

Re: openAFS

#3 2007-05-11 02:50:54

Re: openAFS

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