Folks, There are also quite a few universities that use AFS. Morgan Stanley as well and other large bussinesses as well. Not only is it a distributed file system, but a global file system that scales very, very well.
Jack On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:18:27PM -0400, Daniel Scott wrote: > Hi, > > As far as I know, these are the main differences between AFS and NFS: > > NFS has little/no security (Although I think V4 does?). AFS integrates > with Kerberos (And hopefully soon with LDAP) so works well with > centralised user management. > AFS allows for multiple redundant servers and filesystem snapshots > which makes it more reliable. > As you say, it is distributed. You can share your files with the whole > world or no-one. > AFS has a very good caching mechanism. > AFS has ACLs, more fine-grained than Unix file permissions. > > That's all I can think of at the moment. :) Some of these features > might well be present in the latest versions of NFS. > > Dan > > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:53, solarflow99 <[email protected]> wrote: > > i just wondered why someone would need AFS? it sounds like a > > distributed NFS? I wonder what scenario would need it. > > > > > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Jack Neely <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Folks, > >> > >> Yeah, apperently CVS just didn't want to cooperate with me and wouldn't > >> update the new F-13 directories. Learn something everyday, right? > >> > >> Dan, the OpenAFS packages are built and should hit testing during the > >> next push. > >> > >> Jack > >> -- > >> Jack Neely <[email protected]> > >> Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services > >> Office of Information Technology, NC State University > >> GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89 > >> > > > -- Jack Neely <[email protected]> Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89
