[OpenAFS] the best distributed file system

Nathan Neulinger nneul@umr.edu
18 Jun 2002 16:53:36 -0500


And others of us that do run file servers on linux have never seen that
error. (We've seen other intermittent issues that result in service
loss, but virtually never data loss.)

-- Nathan

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 16:30, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <6delgado@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> writes:
> 
> > I get the Impression you're implying that AFS is a good choice for
> > "mission-critical data storage".
> 
> > Wouldn't it be responsible right now to warn newcomers about the
> > CopyOnWrite failure issue on linux?
> 
> > While these issues are present AFS is not exactly the premium choice
> > for mission-critical data storage either.
> 
> We've never seen any CopyOnWrite failure, ever.
> 
> I've not been following that closely, but isn't it specific to running
> file servers on Linux?  Lots and lots of us who use AFS for
> mission-critical data storage are not and never have run file servers on
> Linux.
> 
> -- 
> Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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