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- From: CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson)
- Subject: Re: What is AFS? (as regards Depot)
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 08:03:45 CDT
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- In article <Bt72nx.C2q.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- ern+@cs.cmu.edu (Rudy Nedved) writes:
- >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.
-
- I'd be interested if anyone can highlight some of these AFS problems.
- Of course, with any networked file system there is the dependency on
- the net and server(s). I was wondering what other problems might exist.
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