[OpenAFS] user home directory replication

Steve Simmons scs@umich.edu
Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:10:12 -0400


On Jul 14, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Dan Pritts wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:43:36AM -0700, Jonathan Nilsson wrote:
>> I would like to replicate home directories (and other AFS volumes =
that are
>> primarily accessed read/write) for the purpose of faster disaster =
recovery
>> in certain common cases, such as local hardware failure on an AFS =
File
>=20
> Umich does something a lot like you are describing, or at least they =
used to.
>=20
> http://workshop.openafs.org/afsbpw06/talks/drh.scs.pdf

We did play with this for a while on our production servers, but the =
project got set aside and no-one's really been able to pick it up again.

Steve=