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| Newer page: | version 12 | Last edited on Monday, August 11, 2003 4:22:55 pm | by StuartYeates | Revert |
| Older page: | version 11 | Last edited on Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:27:47 am | by NathanWard | Revert |
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* The Andrew File System uses [Kerberos] for Authentication, [Kerberos5] is now prefered, however [Kerberos] 4 is "native" to OpenAFS.
* AFS uses "tokens", which are [Kerberos] 4 tickets stuffed into the kernel. The are tied to your UID, or to your [PAG].
* AFS can also dedicate part of your local machine for caching files allowing for very fast access to files even if you have a slow link to the AFS servers.
* Originally called "Vice" (the Andrew Toolkit was known as 'Virtue')
-* AFS originally copied entire files over when you edited them, this was slow for large files, however this has been fixed now for a while. [coda
] still does this, its needed for disconnected operation.
+* AFS originally copied entire files over when you edited them, this was slow for large files, however this has been fixed now for a while. [Coda
] still does this, its needed for disconnected operation.
Information about setting up OpenAFS under Debian: http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=816
Some of the authors of [AFS] realised that [AFS] worked quite well for a while if you unplugged the network (since it caches everything on the local disk) but when writes occured issues arose. So as a research project they decided to work on Coda. Coda allowed fully disconnected operation -- you could take a laptop with wireless and wander in and out of range and it would correctly handle syncing all your files up, notifying you if there were conflicts. Coda was quite a success, then the people working on Coda decided that they could do better...
