Subject: Re: netatalk in production environments....(RFC)
From: Ron Chmara (ron@opus1.com)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 14:36:26 EDT
Harry Zink/Netatalk List wrote:
> A great many people have posted in the past how they are using netatalk
> servers in genuine production environments. This puzzles me, simply because,
> as much as I like netatalk, it still lacks one MAJOR feature which, in my
> opinion, renders it near unusable in a heavy production environment - alias
> support.
Hm. Other demand file-locking. Others demand a JFS platform. To each their
own, I guess.
> Even under pre-37, alias' for sub-folders will break and not remain attached
> from session to session. Most user's I know heavily rely on alias' to
> utilize server volumes -
The volumes themselves, yes.
> My question, to those of you that DO use netatalk in production environments
> - how do you do it? How do you deal with the alias issue, and what
> work-arounds have you found for your users (no, telling them they can't use
> alias' is NOT an answer....)
Well, if your users are running the show, I suppose you should use whatever
they want you to use? :-) Seriously, though, certain things have _always_
been considered "not best practice" in one environment I admin for, and using
aliases (which can point to the wrong volume, server, or job) is one of
them. So they work without aliases. Files are organized well, so the use
of aliases becomes redundant at best, and a time waster at worst. Example:
/dailes (Mounted Volume)
--/41278
--/41280
/archive-prep (Mounted Volume)
--/31245
--/31790
To get to their active jobs folder is *one* alias, to a volume, or a direct
mount. From there they pick their active job.
> I'm really curious, as myself, and several IT friends of mine keep having
> these discussions, and regardless how much we really want to deploy
> netatalk, our hands are tied by the workflow of our users.
Well, if you're just selling hardware, them's the breaks...
If you're selling _workflows_ on hardware, then that's a different set of
rules.
-Ron
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