[Gllug] new project HA at home and away

[Gerd Busker]

Tethys wrote:
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>
> Sanatan Rai writes:
>
>   
>> Rather, look at OpenAFS, its currently used descendent:
>>
>> http://www.openafs.org/
>>
>> It is used by many universities, including my last grad school,
>> with Kerberos for authentication. You can't beat it when it comes
>> to distributed file systems
>>     
> Really? Last I heard, it seemed that all the cool kids were using Lustre
> (including some of the aforementioned investment banks). Does anyone know
> enough about it to compare the two in an unbiased way? Preferably as a
> GLLUG talk?
>   
Lustre is a parallel file system, AFS a distributed file system with 
lost of features such as volume replication, kerberos authentication, etc.
They are different beasts entirely. 

Gerd.


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