On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Jan Harkes wrote:

> If the clients are strongly connected, and people only want to access
> small parts of huge files, the obvious solution would be to use OpenAFS
> (or maybe Arla, if they are still active).

For "one-time read()" like a movie read from the beginning to the end,
a non-caching file system would suit even better.

(btw Arla caches whole files afaik)

Consider NFS - or SMB, if you want authentication...

Cheers,
--
Ivan