From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 3 19:27:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA11843 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:27:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA11824 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:27:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA25696; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 22:27:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 22:27:15 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" To: The Hermit Hacker cc: Thomas David Rivers , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AFS for FreeBSD - OK, I think we're ready! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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