[OpenAFS-devel] Fw: shadow fileserver

[Steve Simmons]

We're going to be experimenting with these shortly, using a patch that
Jason Dilleman submitted to openafs-dev but updated to work with  
1.4.1-rc3.
We'll have some preliminary results in a week or so.  The code is  
clearly
not production-ready, part of our task is figuring out how far away it
really is. With luck we can get away with just adding a new rpc and some
quick and easy stuff to the vldb service.

One of our intents is examining shadow fileservers as a disaster  
recovery
mechanism; another is to allow multiple .backup volumes similar to what
the old (and current?) Network Appliance file servers do.  More data  
about
a week from now.

If someone can direct me to the maillist the discussion below came from
it'd be appreciated.

Steve

On Jan 11, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Christopher D. Clausen wrote:

> Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>> Now of course, if someone wants to talk about what it would take to
>> make these features a reality, I'd be happy to have such a
>> conversation.  But that probably belongs over on openafs-devel,
>> rather than here.
>
> After questions about fail-over and redundancy, I think it might be  
> good to at least know it would take to be able to use "shadow  
> fileservers" as a means of failover.
>
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