OpenAFS for Fedora 13

[Jack Neely]

Folks,

There are also quite a few universities that use AFS.  Morgan Stanley as
well and other large bussinesses as well.  Not only is it a distributed
file system, but a global file system that scales very, very well.

Jack

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:18:27PM -0400, Daniel Scott wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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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> >
> 

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