[OpenAFS] Holy Grail of High Availability

[Tino Schwarze]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:05:29PM -0600, Chris Dos wrote:

> I'm been looking at distributed files systems lately and I may have been 
> under the wrong impression that OpenAFS or Coda could be the Holy Grail 
> for High Availability for the hosting company that I work for.  The part 
> that worries me right now is the server replication.  According to the 
> documentation that I've been reading, the server replication is only 
> good for volumes that don't see many files changing.  So, replicating a 
> database such as Oracle or MySQL that changes data often would be a bad 
> idea, 

Replicating a database will not work this way - you circumvent all kinds
of internal caches and integrity checks. Your database needs to support
replication explicitly.

BTW: There seems to be no holy grail with multiple RW replicas. You open
a big can of worms when allowing concurrent writes on different servers.

Bye, Tino.

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