From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 20:35:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2FC816A407 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 20:35:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B9913C46C for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 20:35:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l34KXXK0090216; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:33:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l34KXXDR090215; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:33:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:33:33 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: Nestor Wheelock Message-ID: <20070404203333.GB90143@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20070404132213.D27324@mail.idotmind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070404132213.D27324@mail.idotmind.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & OpenAFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:35:00 -0000 Hello, > Hi Jerry, > I found your posts regarding FreeBSD 6.1 and AFS in my search to > possibly make it work (I'm running a mix of 6.1 and (testing) 6.2) on our > various machines and was was wondering if you found anymore answers. You should probably post this type of thing to an appropriate list, such as freebsd-questions or OpenAFS where more people with better knowledge than I have will see it. > Some background to my project: > > I'm looking for a replacement for NFS. I want to share jails across a > cluster of machines for "virtualized" servers a la the Linux Virtual > Machine. I'm looking for a file sharing system that will behave nicer > than NFS and thought AFS might be an answer? I also liked how all the > drives in the various machines can act together as a large share, rather > than having to have a dedicated drive array. Especially with the cheap > abundant SATA2 storage that is available these days. > > Any experience you care to share or advice you might wish to offer would > be appreciated. As for AFS, I needed only a client. The university maintains the server which, I think still, they run on AIX. So ended up installing Arla on a machine running FreeBSD 5.5. It would not work on 6.1, nor would OpenAFS. But, I have read that OpenAFS now works on 6.2 or maybe it was 7.0 -- any the latest of FreeBSD. I have not tried that since currently the Arla install is serving my needs. ////jerry > > Nestor Wheelock > Systems Architect > idotmind.com