[OpenAFS] Q: Is Openafs capable to handle the described setup?

[Tino Schwarze]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 05:56:29PM +0200, Nils König wrote:

> Here is what i intend to do:
> 
> I have 2 similar fileservers with 500GB harddrive which are going to be 
> located in two diffrent buildings.
> I want both servers to have the same data partition, i.e. replicate data 
> immediately to both ends.
> And if the netwok connection between those buildings fail (it is an
> optical laser link), data should be cached offline and replicated asap
> the link gets up.

AFS does not support offline operation and hot replication of data.
There is only the notion of readonly clones which have to be
synchronized manually (by issuing a command).

You might want to have a look at Intermezzo and Coda, but I don't know
whether they are production-ready.

Bye, Tino.

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