Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 12:53:01 -0700 From: jbarbee@singular.com (John Barbee) To: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org Subject: please clarify: afs and dfs and other fs Message-ID: <4.1.19990708123047.00a387b0@server7.singular.com>
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Hi, I'm doing a little bit of research for a project that we may undertake in the future. A lot of what we want to do is based around a reliable distributed fs architecture. We've heard that IBM uses a lot of AFS for their e-commerce, OSS-related stuff. I'm actually not that familiar with IBM's practices, but that's what I'm told. Anyway, I read through the AFS FAQ and it seems to be something we can use. However, I new to the different distributed file systems architectures and don't understand certain things around AFS and hoped that someone could clarify them. According to AndrewII, AFS has been replaced by DFS from OSF. When I go to OSF's website there is no mention of DSF. On a different note, I thought DFS was a Microsoft product. Besides that, why are people working on Arla (by this I mean make free versions of AFS instead of DFS) or porting AFS if it has already been replaced? Lastly, is this in any way related to CODA or CIFS? tia john. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-afs" in the body of the message
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