[OpenAFS] Common Wisdom, good practices for AFS

[Derek Atkins]

You can check out the OpenAFS WIKI off of www.openafs.org (I think).

-derek

"Michael Lasevich" <openafslist@lasevich.net> writes:

> I am in the midst of installing and deploying an OpenAFS cell. I've been a
> sysadmin for a long time, but I've never used AFS before, and only found it
> because I was looking for an alternative to NFS/Samba/etc. It took some
> time, but I now have a more or less working setup, almost ready to depoy.
> But before I deploy
> 
> From my experience I know that in doing anything,  there is usually a lot of
> ideas and methods and conventions that accumulates from people's experience
> of doing things the hard way, making mistakes, and working with people who
> have more experience.   It is usually refered to as common wisdom.
> 
> As I have no personal experience with AFS and never worked with anyone who
> had it, I am at a disadvantage here. I was wondering if somewhere there is a
> depository of such common wisdom and ideas on the web.
> 
> For example, I've seen recently mentioned that it is a "Good Thing"(tm) to
> have each user's home dir on their own volume - but it would be nice to know
> what problem(s) that solves. What are the common backup practices? What are
> the common fault tollerance practices? What bugs and pitfalls I should watch
> out for?
> 
> If there isn't such a depository, I am willing to donate some web space to
> build it - IF people are interested in contributing their ideas to it?
> 
> -Michael
> 
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