AFS ... or equivalent ...

[Gergely CZUCZY]

Hello,

Check out coda, it's also a distributed filesystem, and has an updated
kernel module in 7-STABLE. The bits in 6.x are out-of-date, but it will
be back in business from 7.

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:34:24AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> Hi ...
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>   I recently started working for a company that is using AFS to mirror their 
> data between various data centers, in the US, Asia and the EU ... the idea is 
> that the several thousand servers that are being run have access to identical 
> information ..
> 
>   Now, depressingly enough, it looks like OpenAFS works on everything *but* BSD 
> ... :(
> 
>     IBM AFS for AIX, Version 3.6
>     IBM AFS for Digital Unix, Version 3.6
>     IBM AFS for HP-UX, Version 3.6
>     IBM AFS for Linux, Version 3.6
>     IBM AFS for SGI IRIX, Version 3.6
>     IBM AFS for Solaris, Version 3.6
> 
>   Does anyone know if there is any serious work being done to get AFS working 
> under FreeBSD?  I have a large project that I'm working on that AFS (or 
> something equivalent) would be *very* useful for, but we're trying to keep it 
> as FreeBSD-pure as possible ...
> 
>   Thoughts?  Pointers?
> 
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Sincerely,

Gergely Czuczy
mailto: gergely.czuczy at harmless.hu

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