- What’s
your line of business?
- Do
Road Warriors need secure access?
- What
OS’s are in use?
- Any
federal regulations involved?
- How
many users?
- How
many sites?
- Do you
need byte level locking?
- Is
Morgan Stanley big enough?
http://www.pmw.org/afsbpw05/workshop.html
look at the NW Air ppt slides. AFS is accepted by the FAA…
tedc
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Bass
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 1:12
PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [OpenAFS] What
filesystem?
Hi,
I hope everyone doesn't mind if I repeat a question. One of the few
responses I did get said I should be more complete in asking my question.
My boss is trying to choose one distributed file system from NFS and MS-DFS and
so on, from my feeling, AFS sounds like the best choice, it is secure and is
being used by many large institutes, such as Harvard, MIT, NASA, Stanford,
etc. Actually GrandCentral.org says they use it, I cant tell for
sure if that means the whole place, or one department, or a couple of people in
a lab.
In order to convince my boss, I have searched via Internet, expected to find
some kind of comparison between AFS, NFS and MS-DFS, or some web pages that
could have something tracking the usage of each file system, which can be used
to prove/indicate AFS is better than the others. But except for an outdated IBM
AFS whitepaper, I didn't find any solid evidence or data that I can present to
my boss. I ha d hoped to find a source of information such as websites
that track Linux installs or MSIE/Opera/Mozilla
usage (or this),
but it seems hards to find. I see openafs.org has "Success
Stories", but there are only five!
Anybody can see that some of very smart people made and use AFS, but how can an
overworked person like me convince my also overworked boss that we should spend
the money and time necessary to learn, deploy, train, and support AFS
enterprize-wide?
I wonder if anyone of you have had this kind of situation before, or may have
something that I can use to convince my boss.
Thank you in advance for any kindly assistance.
John Bass
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