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Re: AFS



On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Viral wrote:

> Has anyone used the Andrew File System (AFS) for a cluster ?
> Its already packaged for debian, and sounds good. 
> 
> How does it compare to NFS ? 

AFS is a more secure, high performance alternative to NFS.  It does,
however, use a slightly different set of concepts to the "Unix way", and it
does take a bit of getting used to.


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