DFS - Any experiences? (Good or Bad!)

[Netman]

Anyone implemented DFS (Distributed File System) on Windows Server 2003 yet? Is it worthwhile?

 

Any help appreciated...

[Geoff]

Works fine on 2k3. DFS on W2k is a place of hellish nightmares though.

[kingswood]

Yep- we have DFS running on 2003 Server and it seems OK. The problem for us comes from our having a 2000 server in the domain too- and that *does* cause problems. Normally this is seen in our having to force replication of recently changed objects...

 

Paul

[Netman]

Luckily got rid of last w2k server in the summer so am all w2k3 now. What an improvement.

 

Think I'll look at deploying DFS soon then...

 

We bought a sofa from DFS a few years ago too!! (Before anyone else says it!)

[kingswood]

LOL!

 

There's an analogy coming on..but hopefully you won't have to wait as long for your DFS to work as you sometimes do to get DFS to deliver a sofa :-)

 

Good luck!

 

Paul

[StewartKnight]

wasn't DFS the disk filing system on the BBC 'b's with the floppy drives.......ah; those were the days!

[Geoff]

yes it was. However I had superDFS drives (800k!) on my BBC B+.

[kingswood]

I wanted to use a BBC whilst studying 6502 assembly language, but couldn't get the courage up enough to buy one from eBay...*sigh*...they were great machines though.

 

Paul

[Geoff]

Still got mine. Its rather crazy though. 1mb of ram and a 30mb HDD.

[Dos_Box]

With Vista and Vista Server on the way it will be even easier. Virtual folders, which is just DFS of a sort is going to be a mainstay of the file sysem.

[E1uSiV3]

LOL!

 

There's an analogy coming on..but hopefully you won't have to wait as long for your DFS to work as you sometimes do to get DFS to deliver a sofa :-)

 

Good luck!

 

Paul

 

Ive been waiting 8 weeks for my new sofa from DFS and it isnt here yet

[eejit]

I'm playing with DFS at the moment. It says to use the Active Directory integrated Namespace for under 5000 folders only. That's not enough for most schools I would think. Are you people finding that it uses a lot of resources?

[MartinDixon]

got it running between 3 seperate school sites over VPNs

mostly ok tho odd glitches, say when a vpn goes down and then reconnects

 

DFS re-written in 2003R2, will be investigating

[eejit]

Cheers Martin. How many folders are you synchronizing approxiamately?