[buug] AFS vs NFS

[Bill Honeycutt]

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.
>