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- From: marshall@cs.iastate.edu (Bill Marshall)
- Subject: Re: AFS vs NFS vs DCE
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Dec15.161522.11375@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:02:17 GMT
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- efroyman@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Ella Froyman) writes:
-
- >Can anybody point out to me the differnces between AFS vs OSF's DCE.
- >What is AFS? what are the differences between AFS vs NFS. On what
- >platform does AFS run? How do Implement? How much does it cost?
-
- I'll try to briefly address this.
-
- AFS is the Andrew File System, developed at CMU and now supported by
- Transarc Corp. AFS runs on many unix platforms. Email
- afs-sales+@transarc.com for more info. They have a nice package they
- send out.
-
- AFS provides the same basic file system on all machines in the AFS
- system which can include any machine on the Internet.
- AFS caches file access on the local disk to provide better performance
- than NFS.
-
- OSF DCE is an entire suite of tools to help develop and support
- distributed computing. AFS is part of DCE. It has been chosen for the
- DCE distributed file system.
-
- Dislaimers: (Do I really need them???) I've just use all of the above.
-
- Bill
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- Bill Marshall
- Computer Science Department
- Iowa State University
- marshall@cs.iastate.edu
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