Re: Distributed File Systems. Which is best?

[Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>]

To answer your question it seems that no one has used these, or very
much. 

I would ask the lists for each FS though. I know GFS works with XFS. I
know AFS has been used with XFS systems, and I know that PolyServe has
as well. 



On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 21:04, Jason White wrote:
> pac@fortuitous.com writes:
>  > > > 
>  > > > Why not consider
>  > > > c. OpenAFS (http://www.openafs.org/) which I have never used, but
>  > > > apparently it works (or at least used to work/has been rumored to
>  > > > work) with XFS as the underlying file system on the AFS
> partitions.
>  > 
>  >   I'll consider it. But that still leaves us where we started. 
>  > Has anyone Used any of these, and why are there so many projects
>  > working independently of each other, and which is the most reliable?
> 
> AFS has a strong reputation for reliability, and it is
> also the oldest of the systems mentioned, having been used widely in
> university and corporate settings for years. However I am not
> acquainted with its reliability or performance under XFS.
> 
> As to why there are so many projects in this area, I suspect a number
> of reasons, including different design goals, some projects being
> newer than others (the desire for a "fresh start" with a different
> approach to the design), etc.
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Austin Gonyou
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