Re: OT: Is it so easy to break into an NIS?

[Thiemo Nagel <thiemonagel@gmx.de>]

Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> What is OpenAFS vs CODA?

IIRC CODA has the limitation of needing 4% of volume size in RAM. And 
performance is very bad (IIRC like 150 kbytes/sec max on pentium 400). 
On a second thought: This was in a fully redundant setup - probably it 
has better performance in other setups.

regards,

Thiemo Nagel

> tps@unslept.com wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:09:51AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> >
> > > Quoting seph (seph@commerceflow.com):
> > >
> > >
> > > > depends what you mean by free. Are you aware of openafs?
> > > > http://www.openafs.org
> > >
> > >
> > > That is of course derived from the IBM Transarc software.  Hmmm.  Some
> > > while back, I'd been lead to believe that only client-end software was
> > > available in open source.  A quick perusal of that site plus some Google
> > > hits suggests that such is not the case now, if it ever was.  Can
> > > someone confirm from experience that AFS can be done with all open
> > > source, both ends?  (Yes, I do consider IBM PL code to qualify.)
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes, both sides are fully opensource now.
> >
> > Tim