<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Cache-FS sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out. <br><div> </div><span style="font-family: courier;">--- </span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Wayne Johnson, | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">There are two kinds of people: Those</span> </span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">3943 Penn Ave. N. | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">who say to God, "Thy will be done," </span></span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">and those to whom God says, "All right,
</span></span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">(612) 522-7003 | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis</span><br></span><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Florin Iucha <florin@iucha.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list@mn-linux.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, March 12, 2010 11:56:49 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [tclug-list] GFS over a WAN<br></font><br>
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:29:18AM -0800, Wayne Johnson wrote:<br>> I was wondering if there was a way to create a common file system between both sites (here in MN and TX). GFS sounds like it might work, but I have not found anyone who claims to have done this on Google. I remember there use to be AFS which worked in a similar fashion.<br>> <br>> Guess I'm hoping to set something up where files will exist on both networks. When a file is opened, the network compares the local and remote file systems and the newest version is used. If the remote is the newest, it's transferred to the local as it is used so the local cache is updated and the next use will be entirely local. Am I dreaming?<br><br>Another thing to try is Cache-FS as a front-end to NFS. A guy from<br>RedHat did most of the work and they finally got it in mainline a few<br>releases ago, but it should be in Centos/RedHat already as they
were<br>claiming the customers wanted it.<br><br>So, you just dedicate a large partition on the remote site as a cache<br>and then mount NFS through it. I'm not sure what kind of latency<br>you'll get, but the speed of light is what it is.<br><br>Cheers,<br>florin<br><br>-- <br>Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition.<br><span> <a target="_blank" href="http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163">http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163</a></span><br></div></div>
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