Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AFS is a distributed file system. Hopefully no one will slap me for this > simplicity, but in my eyes it's "NFS with Kerberos based authentication > and security".
> Ie, it's encrypted... Well, it usually isn't encrypted, but other than that, it's a start. AFS adds a lot more than just Kerberos-based authentication, though. It's a cached file system, meaning that there's a client-side cache for frequently accessed files that speeds up network performance a lot, and it's location-independent, which means you can move collections of files between servers arbitrarily and completely transparently from the perspective of any client. The latter two features make it a true enterprise file system, which NFS is not. NFS is a workgroup file system. It simply doesn't scale to multiple terabytes of data, dozens of servers, and thousands of clients in a single homogenous file system. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
