Re: Distributed File System Question

[Anthony Joseph Seward <anthony seward ieee org>]

On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 14:12, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> One of my clients just opened a second office.  The current setup has
> one RH server in each office.  The two networks can talk to each other
> via a CIPE tunnel I setup.  Users can get to files in both offices, but
> some of the files are fairly large (30+MB MS Publisher files for
> example) and it can take a long time to open or even just save the
> file.  
> 
> What I want to do is setup a distributed file system for the following
> reasons:
> 1) There is only on file repository with files for both offices.
> 2) Files would be "local" (read cached at least) in both offices so that
> load times are better.
> 
> I have done some looking into OpenAFS, Coda and Intermezzo.  
> OpenAFS seems very complicated and perhaps more than I need.
> Coda was based on AFS2 so I think it will be similar.
> Intermezzo I have not looked at much yet.
> 
> Any thoughts on what the best solution is?  Are there other alternatives
> I should think about?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matthew

I have a similar setup and also looked at a distributed file system.  I
had more problems setting them up than I wanted so I just settled on
unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/).

Tony
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Anthony Joseph Seward <anthony seward ieee org>