When Will IBM Release OpenAFS?

sighup asks: "My company is in the need of a distributed file system for WAN use. I've looked around. CODA and InterMezzo aren't there yet. NFS is not going to work well in our instance. So, I went looking at AFS (having used it in college). I found that IBM had announced that they were opensourcing AFS. We were willing to pay for it, but this is soooo much better. The original announcement said that IBM would be releasing the source code in September. September has come and gone and October is almost gone. They've posted the docs, but nothing else. I've even mailed DeveloperWorks and got no response. So, when's OpenAFS -actually- going to be out?"

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[jbridge21]

This is somewhat off topic, but this seems like the best place for a discussion...

Notice how the story submitter says "October is almost over"... meaning they submitted the story before November. It is now the 4th. Is the slashdot story backlog really 5 days, or is this an isolated incident? If it is, this seems like a good argument for K5-style story modding..... (I make no claims as to how that would change this site.)
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Re:Jeez, check your info first...

[jimmy927]

OpenAFS is released, yes.
But it does not compile on ANY plattform yet ...

the following FREE AFS-implementation does compile: http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/

It contains an well working AFS-client, and an experimental/alpha AFS-server.

Cliff the procrastinator

[IvyMike]

Cliff, you gotta stop letting these things sit on your desk for a week before posting, or this sort of embarassing stuff happens.

OpenAFS is out!

[Doodhwala]

Okay... Linux only distributions are already out. I just picked one up and compiled it yesterday night. Let me know if you need to get your hands on it (plus it has a simplified make file).

It's out!

[strredwolf]

This was sent out to the Linux-AFS list on Nov 1st:

http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensou rce/afs/downloads.html

To get the latest scoop, subscribe to the list! Send a request to linux-afs-request (at) mit.edu and a human will subscribe you.

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Stop bagging on this guy

[fliplap]

Ok look, slashdot obviously has quite a big submission bin, it isn't this guys fault that Cliff hasn't read slashdot for a few days. Notice he says "October is almost over" When OpenAFS was released on November 1st. I propose that everyone that has made any sort of stupid comment about this guy not looking hard enough just shut up and look at a calender, then at this question, then at that OpenAFS release on November 1st. Then slap yourself and say sorry.

I think this guy is owed an apology.

[be-fan]

I think the guys running /. owe this guy an apology. I'm assuming that after a /. guy OKs a story, it doesn't take 3 days for that story to appear on the main page. Thus, AFS must have already been released when this story was OK'ed. Thus, the guys running Slashdot were out to lunch on this case. That caused the /. crowd to think this guy was an idiot, hence the need for an apology from the guys running /.

GFS

[austad]

You might wanna take a look at GFS.

I'm not quite sure if it's designed for a WAN environment, but it is a Storage Area Network which can support multiple clients. It's cool even if it won't work for what you want.

While I wait for CODA or some other project to become stable, I've been using rsync to replicate video files between multiple geographically different video servers. Rsync is great, because if a large file is still being uploaded, it will transfer as much as it can to the other servers, and when it runs 1 minute later, it will start where it left off. I whacked up a little script that won't start rsync if a copy is already running, otherwise you'll end up with a whole bunch of copies of rsync running.