Steve Simmons wrote:
On Jul 23, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Jesse W. Asher wrote:
Anyone have any real world experience they are willing to share on
how AFS compares with current implementations of NFSv4?
I'm doing some research on deploying AFS vs. NFSv4 and trying to
understand which might be better at this point in time.
Specifically, I'm in interested in the following areas:
1) WAN performance
2) Global namespace (transparency of file/directory location)
3) Caching
4) Security
a) Encryption
b) ACLs
I found some discussions in the archives, but the ones I found were
old (2003) and I wanted a current perspective.
IMHO the biggest single issue with near-term deployment is the
clients. NFSv4 looks like a big improvement, but I can't find things
more current than a year back about client status. At that time, the
clients didn't look production-ready to me.
Darwin doesn't have NFSv4 support unless you trust an ad-hoc piece of
software with no support. I remember seeing a comment about Solaris
needing patches or an upgrade to 10. Linux has had support in kernel for
a little while now though it may not be there by default on many
distros. Of course, openafs also needs to be "enabled" on many distros
as well.
-Tim
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