[OpenAFS-devel] Fw: shadow fileserver

[Christopher D. Clausen]

Steve Simmons wrote:
> 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.

Sorry about that.

Starts here:
https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2005-July/018444.html

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