On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 04:12:52PM -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > One of my clients just opened a second office. The current setup has > one RH server in each office. The two networks can talk to each other > via a CIPE tunnel I setup. Users can get to files in both offices, but > some of the files are fairly large (30+MB MS Publisher files for > example) and it can take a long time to open or even just save the > file. > > What I want to do is setup a distributed file system for the following > reasons: > 1) There is only on file repository with files for both offices. > 2) Files would be "local" (read cached at least) in both offices so that > load times are better. Hi Matt, It sound like you are looking for a means to automatically synchronize multiple distributed images of a file whenever any copy of the file changes? If you truly want to do that via your file system Intermezzo has good press about its capabilities in that area: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/4368/1/ However a simpler way to go might be to use a revision control system like CVS. > I have done some looking into OpenAFS, Coda and Intermezzo. > OpenAFS seems very complicated and perhaps more than I need. > Coda was based on AFS2 so I think it will be similar. > Intermezzo I have not looked at much yet. > > Any thoughts on what the best solution is? Are there other alternatives > I should think about? -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. jkinz@xxxxxxxx copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. Don't forget to change your password often.
