On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:30:23PM -0400, Grant Young wrote: > I attended a class in the implementation of AFS at LISA a few years ago. > I pretty much left after the first break. I had experienced AFS at > MIT and thought it might be a good secure filesystem to use in public > facing network. But basically, it takes too much rocket science to > implement and support in a commercial environment. > > You have to wonder that TransArc tried to make it commercial and managed > to get IBM to buy them on the promise, but then IBM gave up on it > when there was no market and threw it back into the open source world. > It failed commercially because it was too complex technically.
This is part of what I'm asking the list. Everyone says AFS is a nightmare to set up; I found it fairly simple. What am I missing? _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
