Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:44:50 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redundant/failover NFS servers - stale NFS file handle Message-ID: <B069240B-A900-416C-AB57-EDCBC616992E@mac.com> 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>
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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
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