From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 21:20:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6137F37B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 21:20:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE26643F93 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 21:20:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: from blues.seekingfire.prv (blues.seekingfire.prv [192.168.23.211]) by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F51062 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 22:20:11 -0600 (CST) Received: (from tillman@localhost) by blues.seekingfire.prv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h474Lo620875 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 May 2003 22:21:50 -0600 Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 22:21:49 -0600 From: Tillman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030506222149.E19124@seekingfire.com> References: <1052278822.6547.12.camel@jake> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1052278822.6547.12.camel@jake>; from blueeskimo@gmx.net on Tue, May 06, 2003 at 11:40:22PM -0400 X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers Subject: Re: AFS Server and Client X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 04:20:16 -0000 On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 11:40:22PM -0400, Adam wrote: > On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 22:50, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > Is AFS something that garners little interest in FreeBSD circles? > > I think the overwhelming choice of a DFS in FreeBSD is NFS. May I ask > why you would opt for AFS over NFS? I was under the impression that AFS > was more or less a dead project .. Aside from features like volume management, failover, kerberos authentication, ease of client maintenance and intelligent client-side caching, you mean? ;-) I'd /love/ to see the OpenAFS server in the ports tree - the last messages on it that I've seen on various mailing lists seem to imply that it's Real Close Now. -T -- Page 38: Be sure that, in the excitement of creating a totally rad password, you resist the temptation to tell someone just to show off how smart you are. - Harley Hahn, _The Unix Companion_