[Infrastructures] AFS in an infrastructure

[Sean Kelly]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:57:30PM -0800, Steve Traugott wrote:
...
> AFS is a total pain in the tail end, but it's worth it.  Every time you
> run into another shocking AFS misfeature, just keep reminding yourself
> "I like the end result, I like the end result".  

Now I'm trying to vision how all the pieces mentioned on
Infrastructures.Org fit into an AFS world.

* Version Control could be done over AFS. You could store the
  CVS (or Subversion fsfs) repository on AFS.
* Host install images could be stored on AFS and thus be made available through 
  many different machines running BOOTP/DHCP/whatever.
* Directory Services could be done using LDAP or Hesiod, depending on which 
  route you went down.
* Authentication would be done through Kerberos.
* Network File Servers are AFS file servers
* File Replication Servers are just copying things off AFS
* Client File Access is AFS
* Client O/S Update could be done with tools pulling patches off AFS
...

Am I going overboard with the AFS thing here? Where does the "Gold Server"
fit in when you have AFS and can just store everything in a
replicated/backed up distributed common namespace?

-- 
Sean M. Kelly
Assistant Unix Administrator/Programmer
Division of Information Technology
Creighton University
(402) 280-2264