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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by jcoffland on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:46PM (#15990311)
> you'll have an authentication server which does only authentication

> you'll have a file server which ONLY serves files

These sound like disadvantages. Decentralization would be better. I'd like to share the storage of all my servers and not have one auth server as a single point of failure. I imagine you can setup up a redundant auth server at the cost of more hardware but why not decentralize? This seems a lot like the old way of doing things.

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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by ithkuil on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:06PM (#15990492)
Having a file server that only stores files does not mean having only one file server.
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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by SolarNet on Friday December 22, 2017 @07:38PM (#15992107)
And indeed one of them may be local to the computer serving local drives, and another could be the network resources. Heck it could even allow file servers with different security settings (e.g. the USB drives might be mounted in a hostile file server space).
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Re:Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-b... by noblethrasher on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:44PM (#15990738)
A server is just a name; you can't infer the number of machines (physical or virtual) that are behind a name.
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