[wplug] wplug openafs cell?

[Edward Walter]

What kind of capabilities does OpenAFS have?  I read the success stories
and they talk about things like redundancy and automatic backups.  How do
these things happen?  Also, what kind of protocols does OpenAFS rely on or
more importantly, tunnel over.  For example, can I mount an OpenAFS volume
locally over an SSH tunnel without having to wave a dead chicken over my
pc, or do I need to do more traditional vpn stuff for that to happen. 
Also, I'm looking at ways to distribute redundant storage across multiple
machines.  How well does OpenAFS do this?  Is it reasonable to setup, or
am I better off looking at something like the clustered filesystem that
oracle just GPLed for this purpose.  Sorry for all the questions, but your
post got me reading and brainstorming a little.
-Ed

> On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Brian Medley wrote:
>> Do the computer's in your apartment have real dns entries?  If not,
>> how did you setup afs?  When I looked into it, it seemed that all
>> computers would need real dns entries...
>
>
> Depends on your definition of 'real', they are behind my firewall with
> private 192.168.x.x addresses, but the dns server they use is also
> behind  the firewall and gives out proper name/address mappings to the
> machines  here.
>
> -james
>
>
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