On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 02:39 -0500, Dave Eckhardt wrote: > > P.S. I've seen this disbelief in the fact that automoter + NFS > > actually can be really convenient mostly come from Linux people. > > Perspective depends on experience. > > AFS has its warts, but, trust me, if you've used it for a while, > you will not find yourself excitedly perusing the volume location > database to see where your bits are coming from. In fact, you > generally will not notice when your volume moves from one server > to another, even if you are reading from and writing to it at > the time.
This is an interesting point. At some distant point in the past (last century, actually) I was drawn to AFS because of the features, but left in horror because of the complexity. I guess it doesn't really matter if your environment is being managed by a good IT -- you just reap the benefits. But as a tinkerer, I wouldn't call AFS malleable. Thanks, Roman.
