[buug] AFS vs NFS
Bill Honeycutt
wfhoney at pacbell.net
Fri Mar 28 10:26:46 PST 2003
Thanks, Rick!
Exactly the kind of info I was looking for.
Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Bill Honeycutt (wfhoney at pacbell.net):
>
>
>>Could someone explain the relative merits (or demerits) of using AFS as
>>opposed to NFS?
>
>
> AFS has strong-crypto authentication and encryption, is a slow, complex,
> heavy-weight protocol, and is a bear to set up and administer. Coda
> attempted to sort of clone that, but itself proved too ponderous, so
> project leader Peter Braam jumped ship and is slowly improving a
> from-scratch replacement, InterMezzo.
>
> NFS has No Friggin' Security, is relatively lightweight and simple, and
> is no real problem to set up and administer.
>
>
>>Where would AFS best applied in a practical sense?
>
>
> The classic deployment would be a college environment: People both on
> and off campus can use AFS/Kerberos to get to centrally stored files on
> the AFS "cells".
>
> Thanks to IBM/Transarc open-sourcing the Transarc AFS implementation
> under the IBM Public Licence as "OpenAFS", AFS can now be done using all
> open-source software.
>
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