Re: FreeBSD & OpenAFS
- From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:33:33 -0400
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
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