On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:34:00PM -0800, Lam Hoang wrote:
> What is your opinion (pros/cons) on OpenAFS filesystem ?
I don't really have much technical experience using OpenAFS from an
administrators point of view. I used Stanford's AFS installation as
an end user while I was a student. It seemed pretty decent on
Solaris, but the Linux OpenAFS client was just coming out and was a
little flakey. I assume it has probably improved since then.
However, I do know of some companies who are currently trying to move
away from AFS to CIFS & NFS for a few reasons:
- AFS is more complicated to administer. There are also many more
sysadmins out there who know CIFS and NFS than who know AFS.
- There aren't many companies that provide commercial support of
AFS. (IBM used to sell and support their version of AFS, but they
dropped it a couple of years ago.)
On the other hand, AFS does provide a lot of nice features like a
unified transparent namespace and volume replication, if you need
them.
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Adam Simpkins
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