[OpenAFS] Re: installation advice needed

[Atle Veka]

I get the impression that the primary use of openafs is as a user storage
server, so far I have not received any feedback. Am I misunderstanding the
appropriate usage for openafs? :)

Another note about our setup, the cluster would be accessing openafs on a
read-only basis.

We don't have the resources to afford a SAN and NFS cannot be made fault
tolerant, so I would appreciate any sort of feedback especially people
that have run openafs under high load.


Thanks,

Atle


On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Atle Veka wrote:

>
> Hey all,
>
> I have been going through the openafs docs the past couple of days as I am
> hoping it will enable us to streamline our setup. So, before I dig deeper
> into the system I'd like to see if anyone on the list uses openafs in a
> similar manner or if it is simply not recommended.
>
> Let me explain our setup briefly; We have 17 load balanced FreeBSD servers
> in the cluster. 5 of those backend servers do ~20 requests per second (PHP
> - each hit has the potential of accessing multiple files, anywhere from
> 1-10) while the other 12 do ~120 requests per second (graphics - ~5000
> B/request) at peak. Each individual backend server has an identical set of
> content/data distributed via rsync.
>
> Now, if openafs would be able to serve this cluster with say 2-3
> replicated content machines, that would make me very happy!
>
> Some questions:
> 1) While FreeBSD (4.10-RELEASE) is required in the cluster, Linux would be
> OK to use for the openafs server. What is the recommended OS as far as the
> server goes?
>
> 2) Am I right in reading that openafs does its own traffic distribution?
> In other words, we would not need a separate load balancer for the openafs
> servers?
>
> Comments, configuration tricks, etc, are greatly appreciated. :)
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Atle
> -
> Flying Crocodile Inc, Unix Systems Administrator
>