On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:03:43 +0100, Gabriel Wicke wrote:
About AFS: http://www.openafs.org/ http://www.angelfire.com/hi/plutonic/afs-faq.html#sub1
From the openafs website:
Efficiency Boosters: Replication and Caching
AFS incorporates special features on server machines and client machines that help make it efficient and reliable.
On server machines, AFS enables administrators to replicate commonly-used volumes, such as those containing binaries for popular programs. Replication means putting an identical read-only copy (sometimes called a clone) of a volume on more than one file server machine. The failure of one file server machine housing the volume does not interrupt users' work, because the volume's contents are still available from other machines. Replication also means that one machine does not become overburdened with requests for files from a popular volume.