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Date:      Tue, 6 May 2003 22:21:49 -0600
From:      Tillman <tillman@seekingfire.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AFS Server and Client
Message-ID:  <20030506222149.E19124@seekingfire.com>
In-Reply-To: <1052278822.6547.12.camel@jake>; from blueeskimo@gmx.net on Tue, May 06, 2003 at 11:40:22PM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0305061945510.30561-100000@server1.highperformance.net> <1052278822.6547.12.camel@jake>

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On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 11:40:22PM -0400, Adam wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 22:50, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> > Is AFS something that garners little interest in FreeBSD circles?
> 
> I think the overwhelming choice of a DFS in FreeBSD is NFS. May I ask
> why you would opt for AFS over NFS? I was under the impression that AFS
> was more or less a dead project ..

Aside from features like volume management, failover, kerberos
authentication, ease of client maintenance and intelligent client-side
caching, you mean? ;-)

I'd /love/ to see the OpenAFS server in the ports tree - the last
messages on it that I've seen on various mailing lists seem to imply
that it's Real Close Now.

-T

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