On 11/21/05, Tim Spriggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In all seriousness, what has changed in AFS to need an up-to-date version? > In that manner, (excluding nfsv4) what has changed in the way of network > filesystems of this nature in the past few years? > > Essentially, AFS provides > acl's/possible encryption/secure authentication and authorization > through kerberos/flexable ways to manage storage/clean backup > solutions/redundancy/... > > while nfs provides: > files.
>From what I've heard, NFSv4 provides the security you mention above. Is this not true? Also, I'm not sure what you mean by 'flexible ways to manage storage'. Could you elaborate, please? Thanks, Noel _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
