[Infrastructures] AFS in an infrastructure

[Patrick M McNeal]

> 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?

If you store a "golden server" in AFS, how to you manage the AFS server 
itself?  ( AFS is down, you need to rebuild an AFS machine, but the 
files are in AFS! )  That's a dependance you surely don't want to have.

We use radmind to manage all of our servers, including AFS.  We can 
share the common bits across systems, and even use radmind to manage 
itself.