On Dec 17, 2006, at 1:33 AM, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
AFS really wasn't meant for online/offline operation. It was really meant to bond together sites connected with slow, unreliable leased lines. The lines would go up and down but rarely remained disconnected for extended lengths of time.
Additionally, AFS is a royal PITA to set up, requiring at least three servers for the critical infrastructure. Also, AFS at some point apparently changed from caching whole files to caching file blocks, so your cache may not include a single whole file, depending on usage patterns of the filesystem.
We keep looking at AFS as a possible replacement for NFS (we're looking for security, accountability and reliability), but every time we start probing AFS, it seems we're better off just dealing with NFS's failings than contorting our entire network around AFS.
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