Re: afs and linux 2.2.16

[Ken Hornstein]

>It is possible that IBM / Transarc AFS may die out before
>Arla servers arrive.  E.g. Intel's computing support people
>tell me that the only servers we have that support AFS are
>being EOL'ed. As it is now, it costs me 2,500$/GB to buy disk
>space on our AFS capable servers, as compared to, what, 230$ US
>for 60GB on a PC.

I'm not sure what kind of "AFS capable" server you have, but I just
found someone selling a 50 GB SCSI disk for $859.  That's not as
good of a price you could get for an equivalantly-sized EIDE disk,
but it's certainly not $2,500/GB.

If you have some kind of really expensive media on your AFS servers ...
I don't really see how that's AFS's fault.

--Ken