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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!trantor.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: What is AFS? [NetBSD] Message-ID: <1993Aug25.213507.11531@emba.uvm.edu> Keywords: vfs, AFS Sender: news@emba.uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <CCBCMu.4nK@sztaki.hu> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 21:35:07 GMT Lines: 27 In article <CCBCMu.4nK@sztaki.hu>, Szabolcs Sziget (PinkPanther) <pink@fsz.bme.hu> wrote: >Can anyone tell me what is AFS 3.x , which has its place in vfs_conf.c? AFS is a proprietary network filesystem marketed by Transarc Corp. (it was originally developed by CMU; the A stands for `Andrew'), which will probably never be available for XxxBSD. Last I talked to a Transarc salesthing, she said that they aren't porting AFS to any new systems, although vendors are welcome to license it; they are gearing up for DFS, which is a part of OSF's DCE. The original AFS was rather interesting, technically, but DFS is said to be a real hog like you wouldn't believe. To make things more confusing, `afs' is also the name used by amd(8)'s automounter filesystem; thankfully, `amd' lives in user space so there is no significant name conflict. If you could get Transarc to tell you how it worked (yeah, right!) then you might conceivably reengineer it after staring at a network monitor for a few weeks. There are some rather nice features... -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant