[OpenAFS-devel] AFS + GFS = crazy?

[chas williams - CONTRACTOR]

In message <200608021454.JAA06668@malison.ait.iastate.edu>,John Hascall writes:
>The idea behind GFS is that these file chunks are
>stored on multiple (N, usually 3) chunkservers -- so
>you can lose N-1 of them and still be up and have
>your data.  And the chunkservers could even be

and yet people still backup raid filesystems.  there are certain
critical failures that cannot be solved with this solution.