On 10/1/2012 12:48 AM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:38:10PM +0200, Lars Schimmer wrote: >> On 30.09.2012 21:10, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: >> >>> One-time deals (on linux) that require interaction will blow up all kinds >>> of automated tools and leave the rank and file admins your enemy. >> >> Easy, user do call admins angry and stupid. And Admins change OpenAFS to >> NFS/SMB/or anything else, which is free and easy to deploy. >> Nearly everything is free, functional and already included. >> Why hassle with more work, incompatible licenses and all the user support? > > Having migrated from NFSv3 to AFS (and then OpenAFS), I'd have to say that > NFS may be free, but it doesn't really fall into the 'functional' category. > But this was several years ago, so there might have been some magic that > happened with NFS I haven't seen yet. > > Can anyone who has experience migrating to/from OpenAFS from/to anything > else in the last 2-3 years please comment? If there's really something > free, functional, and already included then I'd like to know what the > heck it is.
I will remind the community of OpenEFS <http://www.openefs.org/> which was developed specifically to permit a large financial institution to use NFSv3 for global software distribution via a firm-wide name space. While it is true that AFS3 provides a large amount of administrator functionality in the box that is not present in competing products, that doesn't prevent organizations from spending money to replicate that functionality at a higher layer. Jeffrey Altman
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