Choice of the distributed file system(1)
Choice of the distributed file system(1)
We have surveyed following candidate technologies.
- NFS and NIS
- The most popular software to build distributed computing environment.
- Security is not enough to integrate user owned workstations into the central service.
- AFS
- Used at many major HEP laboratories around the world, however, TRANSARC recommends to migrate to DFS from AFS.