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Well, never reinvent - the wheel :)</p> - </body> - </section> - <section> - <title>What is AFS ?</title> - <body> - - <p> - AFS is a distributed filesystem that enables co-operating hosts - (clients and servers) to efficiently share filesystem resources - across both local area and wide area networks. Clients hold a - cache for often used objects (files), to get quicker - access to them. - </p> - <p> - AFS is based on a distributed file system originally developed - at the Information Technology Center at Carnegie-Mellon University - that was called the "Andrew File System". "Andrew" was the name of the research project at CMU - honouring the - founders of the University. Once Transarc was formed and AFS became a - product, the "Andrew" was dropped to indicate that AFS had gone beyond - the Andrew research project and had become a supported, product quality - filesystem. However, there were a number of existing cells that rooted - their filesystem as /afs. At the time, changing the root of the filesystem - was a non-trivial undertaking. So, to save the early AFS sites from having - to rename their filesystem, AFS remained as the name and filesystem root. - </p> - </body> - </section> - <section> - <title>What is an AFS cell ?</title> - <body> - <p>An AFS cell is a collection of servers grouped together administratively - and presenting a single, cohesive filesystem. Typically, an AFS cell is a set of - hosts that use the same Internet domain name (like for example gentoo.org) - Users log into AFS client workstations which request information and files - from the cell's servers on behalf of the users. Users won't know on which server - a file which they are accessing, is located. They even won't notice if a server - will be located to another room, since every volume can be replicated and moved - to another server without any user noticing. The files are always accessable. - Well it's like NFS on steroids :) - </p> - </body> - </section> - <section> - <title>What are the benefits of using AFS ?</title> - <body> - <p>The main strengths of AFS are its: - - caching facility (on client side, typically 100M to 1GB), - security features (Kerberos 4 based, access control lists), - simplicity of addressing (you just have one filesystem), - scalability (add further servers to your cell as needed), - communications protocol. - </p> - </body> - </section> - <section> - <title>Where can i get more information ?</title> - <body> - <p> - Read the <uri link="http://www.angelfire.com/hi/plutonic/afs-faq.html";>AFS FAQ</uri>. - </p> - <p> - Openafs main page is at <uri link="http://www.openafs.org";>www.openafs.org</uri>. - </p> - <p> - AFS was originally developed by Transarc which is now owned by IBM. - You can find some information about AFS on - <uri link="http://www.transarc.ibm.com/Product/EFS/AFS/index.html";>Transarcs Webpage</uri> - </p> - </body> - </section> +<title>Overview</title> +<section> +<title>About this Document</title> +<body> + +<p> +This document provides you with all neccessary steps to install an openafs +server on Gentoo Linux. Parts of this document are taken from the AFS FAQ and +IBM's Quick Beginnings guide on AFS. Well, never reinvent the wheel :) +</p> + +</body> +</section> +<section> +<title>What is AFS ?</title> +<body> + +<p> +AFS is a distributed filesystem that enables co-operating hosts +(clients and servers) to efficiently share filesystem resources +across both local area and wide area networks. Clients hold a +cache for often used objects (files), to get quicker +access to them. +</p> + +<p> +AFS is based on a distributed file system originally developed +at the Information Technology Center at Carnegie-Mellon University +that was called the "Andrew File System". "Andrew" was the name of the +research project at CMU - honouring the founders of the University. Once +Transarc was formed and AFS became a product, the "Andrew" was dropped to +indicate that AFS had gone beyond the Andrew research project and had become +a supported, product quality filesystem. However, there were a number of +existing cells that rooted their filesystem as /afs. At the time, changing +the root of the filesystem was a non-trivial undertaking. So, to save the +early AFS sites from having to rename their filesystem, AFS remained as the +name and filesystem root. +</p> + +</body> +</section> +<section> +<title>What is an AFS cell ?</title> +<body> + +<p> +An AFS cell is a collection of servers grouped together administratively +and presenting a single, cohesive filesystem. Typically, an AFS cell is a set +of hosts that use the same Internet domain name (like for example gentoo.org) +Users log into AFS client workstations which request information and files +from the cell's servers on behalf of the users. Users won't know on which server +a file which they are accessing, is located. They even won't notice if a server +will be located to another room, since every volume can be replicated and moved +to another server without any user noticing. The files are always accessable. +Well it's like NFS on steroids :) +</p> + +</body> +</section> +<section> +<title>What are the benefits of using AFS ?</title> +<body> + +<p> +The main strengths of AFS are its: +caching facility (on client side, typically 100M to 1GB), +security features (Kerberos 4 based, access control lists), +simplicity of addressing (you just have one filesystem), +scalability (add further servers to your cell as needed), +communications protocol. +</p> + +</body> +</section> +<section> +<title>Where can i get more information ?</title> +<body> + +<p> +Read the <uri link="http://www.angelfire.com/hi/plutonic/afs-faq.html";>AFS +FAQ</uri>. +</p> + +<p> +Openafs main page is at <uri +link="http://www.openafs.org";>www.openafs.org</uri>. +</p> + +<p> +AFS was originally developed by Transarc which is now owned by IBM. +You can find some information about AFS on +<uri link="http://www.transarc.ibm.com/Product/EFS/AFS/index.html";>Transarcs +Webpage</uri>. +</p> +</body> -- [email protected] mailing list
