Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 22:27:15 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AFS for FreeBSD - OK, I think we're ready! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971203222218.25592A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.971203221109.5095b-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > I think some people where I work would be interested as well. I've > > begun discussing it with them... > > A little late, no? I did some research for work, and from what > I can determine (please, someone correct me if I am wrong) AFS evolved into > DFS...there seems to be alot of nice DFS/DCE stuff going on now... I am at one of the largest AFS cells, am fairly familar with DCE/DFS, and quite familar with AFS (I also have access to the AFS 3.4a-p6 sources, and have already start some of the early work on this... (not much, been too busy with classes :( ). It seems like DCE/DFS isn't really taking off in the industry like AFS did... and NFS v3/NIS+ threatens to provide almost all features that DFS (client side caching, a network registry, file based ACLs) does, at much less expence. IMO AFS will keep its toehold on the market, and DFS/DCE won't make much headway. I would like to be added to the AFS porting list, and I think it would be good t create freebsd-afs@freebsd.org to keep some of this traffic off of -hackers :) -- David Cross ACS Consultant
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