[buug] AFS vs NFS

[Nick Jennings]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:11:19AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> 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.

 Just FYI. InterMezzo is not the same type of file-serving system as NFS.
 It is actually a synchronized file-system, so the space allocation must
 exist on both machines, not just one.

 InterMezzo has a good design behind it. I worked with Peter several
 years ago on InterMezzo and I was very impressed with it's design, 
 though not so much with it's implementation. However since then I hear
 allot of work has been done cleaning that aspect up. I haven't used it
 myself in over a year.

- Nick