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Date:      16 Aug 2000 18:16:50 -0400
From:      Tom Maher <tardis@watson.org>
To:        freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AFS opening up?
Message-ID:  <877l9glulp.fsf@orgazmo.wv.cc.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Dan Cross's message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:27:05 -0400"
References:  <200008162027.QAA09845@math.psu.edu>

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Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu> 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/


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