Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:33:33 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Nestor Wheelock <nestor@idotmind.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & OpenAFS Message-ID: <20070404203333.GB90143@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070404132213.D27324@mail.idotmind.com> References: <20070404132213.D27324@mail.idotmind.com>
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Hello, > Hi Jerry, > I found your posts regarding FreeBSD 6.1 and AFS in my search to > possibly make it work (I'm running a mix of 6.1 and (testing) 6.2) on our > various machines and was was wondering if you found anymore answers. You should probably post this type of thing to an appropriate list, such as freebsd-questions or OpenAFS where more people with better knowledge than I have will see it. > Some background to my project: > > I'm looking for a replacement for NFS. I want to share jails across a > cluster of machines for "virtualized" servers a la the Linux Virtual > Machine. I'm looking for a file sharing system that will behave nicer > than NFS and thought AFS might be an answer? I also liked how all the > drives in the various machines can act together as a large share, rather > than having to have a dedicated drive array. Especially with the cheap > abundant SATA2 storage that is available these days. > > Any experience you care to share or advice you might wish to offer would > be appreciated. As for AFS, I needed only a client. The university maintains the server which, I think still, they run on AIX. So ended up installing Arla on a machine running FreeBSD 5.5. It would not work on 6.1, nor would OpenAFS. But, I have read that OpenAFS now works on 6.2 or maybe it was 7.0 -- any the latest of FreeBSD. I have not tried that since currently the Arla install is serving my needs. ////jerry > > Nestor Wheelock > Systems Architect > idotmind.com
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