Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 16:41:14 -0500 (EST) From: jlrobins@zappa.cs.uncc.edu To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: AFS Support, FreeBSD used at UNC-Charlotte Message-ID: <9512012141.AA25900@zappa.cs.uncc.edu>
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[I know that this has been asked before, but...] I remember seeing a post by Jordan a month or so ago mentioning that AFS support was in the works. Any word on who is doing it? Anything possible to help out those individuals? In other news, the department of computer science at UNCC is embracing FreeBSD in its networks, hopefully to influence the whole college of engineering (and who knows from there?) into the benefits of this wonderful OS, and the usefulness of a heterogenous network. UNCC's College of Engineering has about 145 Sparc stations running Slowaris 2.3 with a large investment in AFS fileserving. Any student in the COE can use these machines. What CSCI is trying to do is to build a network of all sorts of different OS's that provide the same front end and filespace. We can do this better and cheaper with FreeBSD than with Solaris on sparcs. Anyway, we're going to have a lab of FreeBSD / WNT boxes up next semester using NFS, but to deploy this campus wide we need to see AFS space, in that that's where all the student's home filespace is. In the mean time, we're developing a cross-platform environment. We have it so that if you sit down at a PC or a Sun or a SGI, you get the same envirnoment (thanks, fvwm!), the same applications through some simple scripting and expect, and the same filespace (NFS and amd). If you're interested in this stuff, check out http://www.cs.uncc.edu/~jlrobins/network.html BTW -- anyone know about a NFS -> AFS gateway? I've heard rumors about this sort of thing, but I'd like to see some sort of pointers to it. James James Robinson Phone: (704) 547-4876 Department of Computer Science FAX: (704) 547-3516 UNC Charlotte email: jlrobins@uncc.edu Charlotte, NC 28223-0001 System Administrator
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