Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:03:18 -0600 From: Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu> To: freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a new beginning Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9904301001150.28293-100000@waimea.cs.unm.edu> In-Reply-To: <199904301556.LAA15632@shivers.ne.mediaone.net>
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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Olin Shivers wrote: > > I certainly think this is a very worthwhile project, as is the DCE/DFS > > project. I am just trying to decide in my mind what is a better use of > > my time, writing from scratch something that already exists and is > > 'close' to working, or trying to understand someone elses code and bend > > it to fit a model it doesn't presently. > > Now the only thing preventing AFS from being a free file system is the > lack of a server that is freely available. And the nice thing about > getting to the project first is the ability to dictate the BSD license > :-). > > Yes! > > This would be a very important piece of software to create. AFS is like > the Web, but much better -- it has real semantics, it scales, it automatically > operates with any app that understands files. It is a global filesystem. > If AFS could be rolled out across the Internet open software community, it > would be a tremendous enabler. > > AFS is a community-enabling piece of technology. It encourages sharing and > cooperation. Its impact has always been limited by the lack of a free server > -- contrast to NFS. > -Olin So, I'm going to wonder, out loud, what about coda? I know that the goal for the folks at coda was to set up something like AFS and that would be ``free.'' Would a more useful direction to head in be working on arla so that it can speak to both AFS and coda servers? Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ Parker always felt things in his bones because, he said, it saved space. -Steven Ayelett, _The Crime Studio_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-afs" in the body of the message
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