On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 14:12, 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. > > 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? > > Thanks, > > Matthew I have a similar setup and also looked at a distributed file system. I had more problems setting them up than I wanted so I just settled on unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/). Tony -- Anthony Joseph Seward <anthony.seward@xxxxxxxx>
