Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:14:48 +1000 | From | Chai Harjo <> | Subject | Re: AFS (Alternate solutions (Was: Re: NFS still has caching problem)) |
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Hi Matthew,
At 09:47 AM 7/18/96 -0500, you wrote: >>>>>> "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?
I second this one. Why not start with ext3fs?? Let's start the wish list for ext3fs. My wish list : 1. Scaleability 2. Single source image 3. Caching 4. Data replication 5. Security 6. Backup
> > 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.
Are you saying AFS can not run as a server on a Linux machine? OR Are you saying nobody has written AFS server port for Linux yet?
> >[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.
If you know something about this, please share with me too.
Thanks
Chai Harjo
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