Distributed file systems or the like.

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 26 04:38:06 PDT 2006


On Thu, 25 May 2006, Lou Kamenov wrote:

> On 5/25/06, Zane C.B. <zanecb at midwest-connections.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 May 2006 12:50:38 -0500
>> Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:
>> > NFS?
>> NFS is nice, but it does not help when it comes to keeping a duplicate
>> set of files on a second file server that is kept up to date in real
>> time.
>
> NFS + ssync.
>
> AFS, CODA replicated volumes.

FYI, AFS supports replication of read-only volumes, but not of writable 
volumes.  Coda supports read-write replication, but there may be usability 
issues in resolving conflicts in the presence of network partitions.

Robert N M Watson


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