What is working, what not?
You know that ftpcluster is a prototype? Some things are working
some things not. Ok, the list of non-working things is longer.
Working things
- FTP protocol
ftpcluster speaks enough FTP to upload, download, delete
and rename files. You can also create, delete and rename directories.
- The cluster is working
Files can be distributed over your cluster nodes.
ftpcluster knows how to handle files on your nodes.
- Replication
Files can be replicated to two or more node for fail-over situations.
- User authentication
Version 1.0.3: Users must authenticate against a local password
file. Password are actually stored in cleartext.
- Filenames
Version 1.0.3: Filenames are not limited to a certain set of characters. There's
optional support for blanks and/or arbitrary characters in filenames.
You can however restrict your users to usual UNIX filename conventions.
- Partial support for FTP REST command
Version 1.0.7: The cluster supports the REST command for downloads,
for uploads only if the file is stored on the cluster.
- System checker
Since version 1.0.9 there are programs to check and repair cluster nodes.
Non-working things