[OpenAFS] AFS design question: implementing AFS over a highly-distributed,
low-bandwidth network
Jason Edgecombe
jason@rampaginggeek.com
Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:13:42 -0500
Chaz Chandler wrote:
>> Something that might work out a little better is the work being done
>> on disconnected operation. That might suffice for some of your use
>> cases (assuming the timing of that finishing and the features it will
>> offer is suitable for your needs).
>>
>
> Is disconnected afs functional? I saw it as a GSoC '08 project but the afsbpw08 presentation said it's only R/O.
>
>
I would not inflict it upon any of my power users or regular users. R/W
does work, but rebooting will lose data and it doesn't work on windows,
just Unix. Simon can tell you more.
Jason