On Mon, 26 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 ?
The goodness of the idea is open to debate, however it should be possible. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
