[3643] in RedHat Linux List
Re: disk replication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Sat Nov 9 20:31:28 1996
To: Patrick Lawrence <pjl@hornet.ns.net>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Nov 1996 08:29:11 PST."
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Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 20:29:24 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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>> We're currently talking to one company about their software, but it
>> isn't available for Linux yet (and I can't say who until the deal is
>> a yay or a nay).
>
>Can you say if this would be bundled with your distribution or available
>as an add-on? And what time frame we may be looking at?
Again, can't say. No timeframes ever come from us. :-)
>> AFS is major overkill for this kind of thing, anyway (IMHO).
>
>Agreed, but it's out there. However, AFS does a lot of other things that
>would be nice to (client side caching for one.) Too bad about there not
>being a server though.
AFS caching doesn't help much that I've seen (and I've used it *alot*).
Besides, to get any good performance from the AFS cache requires alot
of local disk space. I do like AFS for many things, but for simple
data replication it isn't the way to go. For distributed computing
of more than 100 users or so, it starts to become a viable alternative.
Unfortunately, not on Linux.
>> Is there anything else? Yes
>> and no...you could do rsh and incremental tar.
>
>Yeah, we've thought of this. But I personally don't find it satisfactory
>if there is replication software (possibly) on the horizon.
Please, don't hold your breathe. I only told folks to let you know that
we do think this kind of thing is a priority and that we are working on
it. The horizon could be any time from now till doomsday...
--Donnie
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