Re: Public SFS servers

Martin,

Thank you for your reply.

 >>From: Martin <[email protected]>
 >>Subject: Re: Public SFS servers (Re: SFS-KNOPPIX)
 >>
 >>> The boot time of SFS-KNOPPIX seems to depend on latency. The boot
 >>> time is 5 minutes in Japan but 30 minutes in US. We can prepare three
 >>> SFS sites in Japan but it is too far from US and EU.
 >>> This topic is discussed in the KNOPPIX Forum.
 >>>     http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14904
 >>> 
 >>> Can we use SFS server on PlanetLab?
 >>> Or is there any good solution? Can we use proxy for SFS?
 >>Given that SFS makes use of strong host authentication and crypto I
 >>guess it would have to be a mirror rather than a proxy - although a
 >>proxy is an interesting idea.  You might be able to persuade some of the
 >>more free software friendly mirrors to start providing an SFS service -
 >>would certainly be useful.

We kept three Mirror SFS servers in Japan.
The sites are Univ. of Tsukuba, Alpha-systems Inc. and AIST(Original Sever).

They are enough for Japanese users because latency is short.
Unfortunately latency problem comes up outside Japan.

We want to know practical examples of world wide mirroring of SFS servers.
How about SFS servers for GRID?
  http://www.biogrid.jp/e/research_work/gro1/gsi_sfs/

Our requested specifications are anonymous access, and Read-Only File
System on Internet.

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suzaki