On Thu, 28 May 1998, Shyh-Wei Luan wrote:
| What is AFS waiting for, really???
Transarc and IBM product marketing, I would guess. I've often wondered
the same thing. Products with far less technical merit have been
promulgated far more widely and have done well.
I would guess some of the difficulties are:
1. AFS is viewed as an "old" technology.
2. AFS is viewed as a "complex" technology.
3. The AFS API is extremely difficult to deal with.
4. AFS is reliant on K4, which is also viewed as an "old" technology.
A K5 implementation really needs to be forthcoming from Transarc.
Kerberos scares some people. Maybe its the Hades reference...I dunno.
5. The AFS client isn't particularly thin, and is pretty
resource-intensive for mere mortal PCs without intelligent operating
systems.
I know of at least two ISPs that use AFS. ANS (my company) uses AFS
extensively to support our Network Operations Centers. Erols uses it with
their web hosting service. I'm sure there are others.
-bws
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