On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:45:13AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Viral wrote:
>
> > Has anyone used the Andrew File System (AFS) for a cluster ?
> > Its already packaged for debian, and sounds good.
> >
> > How does it compare to NFS ?
>
> AFS is a more secure, high performance alternative to NFS. It does,
> however, use a slightly different set of concepts to the "Unix way", and it
> does take a bit of getting used to.
Theoretically, then AFS should work with diskless clients ?
Would using NFS-Root to boot and afs for other filesystems such as /home,
/usr etc. be a good idea ?
viral
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