On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Stephen Bosch wrote:
Hi, everybody:
To answer your last question first, AFS is easy to administer on a day to day basis. Once it's up, it works.
To talk about some of the other issues you addressed, AFS is the only system that provides certain features. For me it was Kerberos, redundancy and backup all in one package. And remember AFS is a _distributed_ file system and not merely a networked file system. The distinction is significant.
Obviously I prefer having a distributed file system, it's what got me excited about AFS in the first place, but in lieu of that, we have to have at least a network file system.
One can look at something supposedly simple to administer such as SMB, but it doesn't provide the feature set. Same with NFS.
Agreed.
If you learned how to implement AFS, you learned just about everything one needs to learn about doing system administration. That is a ton of knowledge so of course it's a steep learning curve.
I "learned" it, but I don't know that I've learned it, if you catch my meaning. There are probably a few more lessons to come.
Stephen Bosch
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