Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:47:10 -0500 | From | Matthew X Economou <> | Subject | Re: Alternate solutions (Was: Re: NFS still has caching problem) |
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>>>>> "CH" == Chai Harjo <h9304021@student.anu.edu.au> writes:
CH> Why don't you try AFS (Andrew File System)?
Hey, even cooler would be work on creating freely-available[1] DFS and DCE clients and servers. I wonder if OSF has pubished the specs to either yet?
CH> BTW, I never use AFS on Linux. What is the status of AFS port CH> to Linux?
AFS clients exist for both Linux 1.2.13 and Linux 2.0.4[2]. My machine was upgraded to the 2.0.4 client (and Linux 2.0!!) yesterday and all has been working quite well. Unfortunately, AFS is a Transarc product...not freely available.
[1] Is anyone at the FSF working on this stuff (or any other OSF software)? Developers might want to coordinate their efforts with the FSF.
[2] I believe there is an AFS mailing list ("linux-afs@something.mit.edu" ...not real certain exactly where though).
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