>
> I would appreciate everyone's view point on this subject...
>
> I believe most people on this mailing list use and like AFS. It has puzzled
> me a long time why AFS has not taken off on the Internet. Other inferior
> network file systems, such as NFS and Microsoft Dfs, are rushing to define
> themselves as *the* Internet file system.
Hasn't Microsoft DFS been mostly vaporware so far?
> What is AFS waiting for, really???
>
> Shyh-Wei Luan
> IBM Almaden Research Center
> 408-927-1893 (O)
> 408-927-4192 (FAX)
Actually, I believe everything you mentioned is precisely IBM's vision for
their DFS, which is in large part how their Web-DFS came about. CERFnet has an
implementation similar to what you described--it's working very well from
what I understand, but it's limited to just their ISP, and due to the challenge
of having to educate their users, their implementation of DFS is still largely
on the backend. I think this is also the vision of The Open Group's "IT
DialTone," if I'm not mistaken.
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