From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 13:36:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from houston.matchlogic.com (houston.matchlogic.com [205.216.147.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A18F37B53C for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:36:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crandall@matchlogic.com) Received: by houston.matchlogic.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:36:47 -0600 Message-ID: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B30130133237D@bdr-xcln.is.matchlogic.com> From: Charles Randall To: "Richard E. Hawkins" , Jon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: OT: AFS Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:36:44 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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