From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 15 19:45:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F3516A4DF for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:45:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7273B43D62 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:44:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout02/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k7FJivtk005245; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:44:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [17.214.14.142] (a17-214-14-142.apple.com [17.214.14.142]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin07/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k7FJipuj009657; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:44:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20060815193703.GA91105@uk.tiscali.com> References: <200608141555.k7EFthXw092647@lurza.secnetix.de> <44E0C450.8050602@fsn.hu> <20060815122533.GB89848@uk.tiscali.com> <20060815123032.GR8503@catpipe.net> <6FAF95DA-76D5-4D72-A3C5-88AEA6F13267@mac.com> <20060815193703.GA91105@uk.tiscali.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:44:50 -0700 To: Brian Candler X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redundant/failover NFS servers - stale NFS file handle X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:45:06 -0000 On Aug 15, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Brian Candler wrote: >> I think Solaris also makes a reliable NFS platform, and it even >> supports failover and replication for read-only mounts. For read/ >> write replicated filesystems, you're probably looking at AFS (Andrew >> File System, but an opensource version is at www.openafs.org from >> IBM, who apparently bought out Transarc) or maybe Coda. > > Hmm, I'm not sure I'd want to run Maildir on either of those, or at > least > Coda. When I looked at Coda, ISTR you could have conflicting > updates in > disconnected operation which required manual intervention to fix. > Admittedly > this was a few years ago, maybe things have moved on since then. I'm not sure about Coda & Maildir, but AFS has been used with Maildir for more than fifteen years with sites with tens of thousands of user accounts... -- -Chuck