As there is with anything, there are pros and cons to AFS. Meanwhile I've never used OpenAFS, but I have worked with and have some experience with AFS.
If implimented, the security of AFS can be very nice, but AFS is not very stable. It's been known to go down quite often, then closing you and others out of their files, etc;. AFS is also a much more "high end" network file system. And not sure it would have any practicle use in Linux. I could be wrong, but from my experience, unless you're using this Linux server for business applications, AFS isn't that great an idea to compile and impliment in Desktops like Mandrake. But AFS coupled with Kerberos is a very nice set up. And if implimented properly can be very powerful. Maybe my view point, is just that, my view point, but I don't see AFS sneaking into the mix with NFS for the Desktop for now. If you've tried implimenting it on Linux, please let me know. I'd be very interested in your findings. tdh -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091 -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Hi Everyone, | | Just seeing if is there a better Network File system than NFS in the | standard Mandrake 8.2 Linux, something like OpenAFS.. | http://www.openafs.org/ it sort of bugs me than anyone can walk up and | plug a notebook in a NFS network and probably connect to it.. Just some | ideas please. | | May be there is a AUTH system that could be used for NFS.. but a lot of | text that I read just keep telling me how insecure that NFS is.. There | has been a lot of talk on improved file systems.. but network file | systems Linux seems to be a little behind in Linux. May be Mandrake | should include OpenAFS... | | Cheers | | Mark | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com `-------------------------------------------------------------------
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