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Re: Distributed file systems ?
- To: Oded Arbel <odeda-linux-il(at-nospam)betalfa.org.il>
- Subject: Re: Distributed file systems ?
- From: "Marc A. Volovic" <marc(at-nospam)bard.org.il>
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 17:06:35 +0200
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- Sender: marc(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
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Oded Arbel wrote:
>
> Hi list.
>
> I'm looking into making all of out linux boxes share files, in a fast,
> secure and reliable manner, so I'm looking for a good distributed file
> system. the two DFSs that every linux distro comes with do not really fit
> the need, AFAIK - NFS has reliability problems, and it has the anoying
> feature of imposing access premissions by uids, so the user database on
> every system has to be completly identical to make any sense (I know this
> can be solved by using NIS, but I tried to do that once and it was a pain I
> rather live w/o. if you have any other suggestion for painlesly synching
> users, I'd love to hear about it - something that you wroked with , please),
for a VERY limited number of machines, you COULD use rsync/rdist. Not
VERY
secure, but works. I implemented it once, worked with it for two weeks
and
killed it - does not scale, propagation delay, etc.
> Anyway, so I was wandering - could you make any kind of recomendation,
> preferably based on personal experience, about what DFS to choose. I need it
> mostly for Linux systems, but support for other unices and Win32 platforms
> would be nice to.
How about GFS ;-). Does not work with WinX, but might be interesting....
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