--On Friday, October 13, 2006 10:55 PM +0200 Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  firewalled environment not offering any exposure to the net. But
  openafs is about (non-local) networking, so especially for openafs
  you should harden your systems even more. Keeping the kernel free of

While I _really_ don't want to get into the whole "how often should you upgrade" flamelet, I want to correct a common misconception in your statement above. Many people use AFS in a very closed environment (in my case, various large financials). The main driver for my current employer is that AFS provides seamless client-side failover of read-only data on Linux. The caching is a nice side benefit. Now if only client cache invalidation were a tad more reliable...

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Carson
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