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<[email protected]> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:07:51 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.sfs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I just stumbled upon this project, and Im hoping it will be the right
solution for me.  Right now, we have a bunch of AFS servers/clients as
it (was, anyway) the only decent secure network filesystem out there. 
Well, AFS has its share of problems, so we started searching for a
replacement. I read through the docs, and was impressed, in general.
Very well done. So, a few questions:

How well does this scale? or is that more a limitation of the NFS
server? Im talking about hundreds (perhaps a few thousand at most) of
clients to just a few servers. If anyone is using SFS on any scale, I
would be interested to hear about it.

Can unknown/unauthorized clients be restricted from connecting? I
didnt really notice if or how this would be done.

We use strong authentication (Kerberos), and would like to leverage
that if at all possible with the filesystem. Obviously this is not
implemented as such now, but would it be possible to implement
something like that without a major overhaul?

Any other comments about using SFS on a larger scale would be welcomed as well.

--
Jay Kline
http://www.slushpupie.com/