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- From: ern+@cs.cmu.edu (Rudy Nedved)
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- Subject: Re: What is AFS? (as regards Depot)
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- Date: 18 Aug 92 19:40:39 GMT
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- AFS is the Andrew File System. A system akin to Sun Microsystems NFS
- developed between IBM and Carnegie Mellon University.
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- It has grown and been turned into a real product expanded, maintained,
- serviced and sold by Transarc in Pittsburgh PA.
-
- In addition the "newest" version some people nickname as AFS 4.? (most
- people run AFS 3.?) is part of the DFS (Distributed File System) subsystem
- under OSF.
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- Overall, AFS is a big cost saver if you have significant number of computers
- and are losing lots of man hours to administration. On the other hand, it has
- some other problems when compared to other cross-system file system mechanisms
- like NFS.
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- Cheers,
- -Rudy
-