From owner-freebsd-afs Wed Aug 16 15:13:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org Received: from orgazmo.rem.cmu.edu (ORGAZMO.REM.CMU.EDU [128.2.83.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7293437BB4C for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:13:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tardis@watson.org) Received: (from tardis@localhost) by orgazmo.rem.cmu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01622; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:16:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tardis@watson.org) X-Authentication-Warning: orgazmo.rem.cmu.edu: tardis set sender to tardis@watson.org using -f To: freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AFS opening up? References: <200008162027.QAA09845@math.psu.edu> From: Tom Maher Date: 16 Aug 2000 18:16:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: Dan Cross's message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:27:05 -0400" Message-ID: <877l9glulp.fsf@orgazmo.wv.cc.cmu.edu> Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Carlsbad Caverns) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dan Cross writes: > I can't quite tell what this means... Apparently, IBM is giving > away the ``Andrew File System.'' > > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2515043.html > > I'm not sure if this doesn't refer to the ancient filesystem > done by IBM/CMU (ie, AFS2), but it's certainly provocative. Since AFS2 is what CMU's Coda project[1] is based on, and that is GPL'd, I'm tending to think they mean AFS3. I wish that there were something more substantial around than the cnet article, though. Either way, arla seems to be making a pretty good client. -- Tom Maher [1] http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-afs" in the body of the message