On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:45:13AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > 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. Theoretically, then AFS should work with diskless clients ? Would using NFS-Root to boot and afs for other filesystems such as /home, /usr etc. be a good idea ? viral
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