[HCoop-Discuss] Reorganizing, people-wise and tech-wise

[Matthias-Christian Ott]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 07:06:23PM -0400, Brian Templeton wrote:
> Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> writes:
> 
> > Brian Templeton wrote:
> >> I am strongly opposed to migrating away from AFS. Network filesystems
> >> are extremely useful, and I don't know of any others that could meet all
> >> of our requirements that aren't experimental. AFS may not quite be
> >> "commodity", but it's used in _huge_ installations and we know it can
> >> scale with us as we grow.
> >>   
> >
> > Which requirements do you have in mind? I don't see any sense in which 
> > networked filesystems are even directly useful to 95% of members.
> 
> NFS seems to be the only reasonable alternative, and it doesn't provide
> the same level of security as AFS, which is not good in itself and also
> means it can't provide transparent access from members' personal
> machines.

You could tunnel NFS via OpenVPN, that less difficult than setting up
AFS.

Maybe we should make an idea list on the wiki.

Regards,
Matthias-Christian