[SGVLUG] Distributed filesystems

[Terry Hancock]

For some time, I've used an NFS mount on my home network to 
store common files I'd like to share between our computers.

This was sort of okay when they were mostly images and text
of some kind, but lately, I've wanted to save things like 
music files. Needless to say, playing MP3s in XMMS via an
NFS mount is an uninspiring experience.  :-/

Disk space is so cheap nowadays that volume size isn't much
of an issue anymore. The main reason to share a filesystem 
is to keep the files in synch automatically. Most of these 
files are high-read, low-write.

Lately I've been reading about things like "coda" and 
"intermezzo" as alternatives to using an NFS mount. And of 
course, there's also the possibility of just using a 
conventional drive and rigging an rsync script to keep them
up to date.

I was wondering if other people in SGVLUG had anything to
say about these options. Have you tried any of them? How
well did it work?  Are there others I ought to be 
considering?  How would you do it? Etc.

Cheers,
Terry


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Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
Anansi Spaceworks  http://www.anansispaceworks.com