Re: AFS

[Matthew Palmer <mjp16@ieee.uow.edu.au>]

On Mon, 26 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 ?

The goodness of the idea is open to debate, however it should be possible.


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Matthew Palmer
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