Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:36:44 -0600 From: Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com> To: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>, Jon <jon@state.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: OT: AFS Message-ID: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B30130133237D@bdr-xcln.is.matchlogic.com>
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AFS also supports extremely painful^Wpowerful access control lists, client-side file caching, and a global namespace for files (/afs/iastate.edu/, /afs/athena.mit.edu/, etc). AFS was developed by Transarc and Transarc was purchased by IBM. For more information on AFS, http://www.transarc.com/Product/EFS/Brochure/index.html Specifically, see questions 1.11 and 2.01 of the AFS FAQ, http://www.angelfire.com/hi/plutonic/afs-faq.html -Charles (Iowa State class of '92) -----Original Message----- From: Richard E. Hawkins [mailto:hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 1:11 PM To: Jon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: AFS Jon jabbered, > Couple questions: Who uses the Andrew File System? Why? What advantages > does it have over NFS or UFS? I know that MIT and Iowa State both use it, for Projects Athena and Vincent, respectively. AFS can effectively handle much larger groups of clients than NFS. I believe it is also much more secure (the above use it with Kerberos). UFS is the disk file system, ratehr than the distributed file system. A UFS directory could be shared with either NFS or AFS. hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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