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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] a global-scale txnal distributed filesystem
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Harald Meland |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] a global-scale txnal distributed filesystem |
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Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:12:40 +0200 |
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[Tom Lord]
> b) configure an automounter so that
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> /arch/$REVSION/
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> is served by the NFS server, [...]
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> Now you have most of a transactional, global-scale filesystem.
NFS for global-scale use? AFAIK, it is very common to block NFS
traffic at ones border routers, at least in part to avoid getting
burned too severely by the rather weak security model of NFS (guess
the file handle and you're in).
Maybe something like SFS (http://www.fs.net/) could be used instead?
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Harald