[OpenAFS] distributed_file_system

[Tino Schwarze]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:23:50PM +0200, Marek Jan wrote:

> I am running two servers+clients with AFS 1.2.9, working fine, but I need following:
> Servers: 
> 	linux1.foo.cz
> 	linux2.foo.cz
> 	linuxn.foo.cz
> on each of this servers is partition /vicepa
> and now it is possible mounting all servers to one mountpoint (for example 
> /afs/foo.cz) ? 

No, not really. AFS manages data in volumes. A volume is stored on one
file server (maybe with some RO copies on other servers) and mounted
somewhere in /afs space (possibly multiple times).

You cannot "merge" the space of multiple servers into one mountpoint.
But you can do achieve almost this effect by choosing appropiate volumes
(e.g. home, software, exchange, www etc.) and distribute them across
your servers, that is:
/afs/foo.cz/home -> Volume on linux1.foo.cz
/afs/foo.cz/software -> Volume on linux2.foo.cz
/afs/foo.cz/software/bigpackage -> Volume on linux3.foo.cz
/afs/foo.cz/www -> Volume on linux4.foo.cz, clone on linux5.foo.cz
etc.

HTH! Tino.

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