Hey it's what ASU uses, so it cant be all bad (save the fact that you have to
set the *nix permisions and the AFS permisions, and some of the AFS comands
are a bit funky...  Then again, the fact that people constently forget about
AFS is a clear indication of how transperent it is to the end user.

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Eric "Shubes" wrote:

> Technomage wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 20:14, Don Calfa wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Kind of OT but a couple of years ago I remember talk about disk sharing
> >>in networks (my terms my be off) or sharing unused disk space.
> > 
> > there is one that can do this (and it gives the appearance to every machine on 
> > its net as though they are part of the same filesystem. its call the Andrew 
> > Networked filesystem. Interestingly enough, one of the first client OS'es to 
> > be supporteed under ADFS was windows (it was not the first though: BSD was)
> > 
> > 
> >>The premise is that since the default hard drive is about 40Gig for a
> >>desktop where an average of 20 Gig is used, there was some sharing tool
> >>being developed to create a type of NAS based on the availability of the
> >>drives.
> > 
> > ADFS does this nicely
> > 
> > 
> >>Something like a pod of 5 computers would share the same data and that
> >>data would show up as 20 Gig of storage on the network.
> > 
> > ADFS (sorry to harp on the point...)
> > 
> > 
> >>I don't remember the name of the project but I remember being 'wowed' by
> >>the idea since some of the workstations equiped today have a default
> >>160G hard drive and our server only has 120G.
> > 
> > last reminder: A D F S!
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> Do you mean AFS (Andrew File System, written at Carnegie Melon)?
> ADFS is the Acorn Disk Filing System.
> 
> I don't know diddly about either.
> -- 
> -Eric 'shubes'
> "There is no such thing as the People;
>   it is a collectivist myth.
>   There are only individual citizens
>   with individual wills
>   and individual purposes."
> -William E. Simon (1927-2000),
>      Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
>   "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237
> 
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