Distributed Filesystem for Disconnected Operation?

juraj asks: "I'm trying to achieve the following setup: I have two offices connected via a relatively slow ADSL line, and I want a shared fileserver between the offices. I have VPN using IPSec ready, so security is less of a concern, but simply mounting a filesystem (via Samba or NFS) from one office to another is not a solution because of the speed. Also, the ADSL line is sometimes not only slow, but also disconnected. I've tried the CODA distributed filesystem to achieve replication, so that both offices have local copies of their files. The problem is, that the CODA filesystem is just a research project: it is unstable, with the venus daemon constantly falling, and sometimes when recovering from the disconnected state, one side does not recognize the changes and they are simply not propagated. Have you had any good experiences with CODA? Which versions do you use? What kind of setup did you have? How is it configured? I've also heard about OpenAFS, but similar to CODA, I've learned it is unusable in a real environment. Is there any real solution to my problem? Are there any decent solid free distributed file systems for Linux or the BSDs?"

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Novell ifolder

[Why Should I]

Haven't actually looked into this to any great defree, but is Novel's iFolder an option ?

It's opensourced even and available on Novel Forge.

Re:OpenAFS unusable in a "real" environment?

[passthecrackpipe]

Yeah - OpenAFS is *still* really the only way to go for multi plafrom, disconnected, distributed filesystems. It positively *rocks* - the only downside from my perspective is the unwieldy kerberos management environment, but i am pretty sure that has more to do with my own lazyness and ignorance (wrt learning proper kerberos instead of simply rattling off the HOWTO) as opposed to a fundemental flaw in the system.