IBM and Transarc are targetting AFS at ISPs:
http://www.software.ibm.com/webservers/nagano/about.html
Alex.
Michael Niksch wrote:
>
> > What is AFS waiting for, really???
>
> I think the question is rather "What has AFS been waiting for?"
>
> The answer is most likely that for about 8 years AFS has been waiting
> for DFS to take off. Many people considered AFS too complicated to set
> up, not well documented (how do I learn how to properly hack source
> code to do AFS authentication, anyway), proprietary, not
> POSIX-compliant, too expensive, and not available for Windows 3.xx or
> Windows 9x (not even for OS/2, by the way). DCE/DFS claimed that it
> would solve all those problems - except the first one. Exactly this
> one, however, was the show stopper at a time when HTTP revolutionized
> the world and was easier to set up than anything else ever. Who'd care
> about things like security during a revolution? So AFS didn't take off
> because its own developers believed in DFS, DFS didn't take off because
> it happened to be the age of HTTP, and now we are once again left with
> Microsoft reinventing a concept that SUN developed in the Stone Age.
>
> The fact that nobody from Transarc even bothered to comment on this
> thread confirms that there is no hope whatsoever.
>
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