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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
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 21:35:07 GMT
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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

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