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From: bdc@blackjack.ai.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Compressed filesystem?
Date: 14 Mar 1994 17:55:23 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
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In-reply-to: mtaylor@max.cybernet.com's message of 13 Mar 1994 20:25:01 GMT

>>>>> Mark Taylor writes:
In article <2lvsqt$qu8@nigel.msen.com> mtaylor@max.cybernet.com (Mark Taylor) writes:

    Mark> BTW- is there any support for AFS in FreeBSD?  I have heard of
    Mark> an NFS shim that SGI has which takes care of mapping AFS calls
    Mark> to NFS calls.

AFS is pretty muched owned by Transarc at this point. They arent too
friendly about giving out their code from what i can tell. However, the
afs-nfs translator as it is called is free. i run it under NetBSD. its
not the most reliable thing, but i trust to read files from AFS

-bri