re: updating cluster linux boxes?

yasushi@cs.washington.edu
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:22:43 -0800

eric hoffman writes:
> to replace afs we would have to phase in an nfs service for use by the
> systems group. the major disadvantages to this are the complete lack
> of security, and a paucity of windows clients (?). i'd be happy to put
> time into this and i think we could do it easily with existing
> resources. nspring and i have already been scheming of a way to cobble
> together such a service. of course it would need to have a viable
> backup strategy, we would have to either coordinate with lab or put
> some money into suitably dense media.

I don't have a huge objection agaist NFS, except for the migration
cost. The current Linux boxes depend heavily on files under /afs, and
moving all of them without breaking any is a real pain in the butt. Is
there a way to do migration incrementally (eg, union file system)?

yasushi