OpenAFS, DRBD

[Richard Pieri]

On Jun 3, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> 
> I tend to think of AFS as being at the network layer, same as NFS, while
> ZFS operates at the block layer, with some network-layer features. Does
> AFS also go down to the block-layer?

Yes, it does.  That's where volume management and replication happen.


> In my other post I mentioned Ceph, a new distributed file system, but it
> also seems optimized for many nodes, not 2.

That's the nature of distributed file systems.  They're not designed to scale to the microscopic.

--Rich P.