OpenAFS for Fedora 13

[Daniel Scott]

Hi,

As far as I know, these are the main differences between AFS and NFS:

NFS has little/no security (Although I think V4 does?). AFS integrates
with Kerberos (And hopefully soon with LDAP) so works well with
centralised user management.
AFS allows for multiple redundant servers and filesystem snapshots
which makes it more reliable.
As you say, it is distributed. You can share your files with the whole
world or no-one.
AFS has a very good caching mechanism.
AFS has ACLs, more fine-grained than Unix file permissions.

That's all I can think of at the moment. :) Some of these features
might well be present in the latest versions of NFS.

Dan


On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:53, solarflow99 <solarflow99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> i just wondered why someone would need AFS?  it sounds like a
> distributed NFS?  I wonder what scenario would need it.
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> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Jack Neely <jjneely at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Yeah, apperently CVS just didn't want to cooperate with me and wouldn't
>> update the new F-13 directories.  Learn something everyday, right?
>>
>> Dan, the OpenAFS packages are built and should hit testing during the
>> next push.
>>
>> Jack
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