[Infrastructures] AFS in an infrastructure

[Sean Kelly]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:46:17PM -0500, Patrick M McNeal wrote:
> >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.

Ah. That one bit had escaped me for the moment. Surely my setup would never
fail.

> 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.

I'd be very interested in a more detailed description, such as your
top-level AFS directory structure, what role AFS plays, what role radmind
plays, etc..

Thanks for pointing out my gap in thought.

-- 
Sean M. Kelly
Assistant Unix Administrator/Programmer
Division of Information Technology
Creighton University
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