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-The Andrew File System was developed as part of the AndrewProject
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-* The Andrew File System is a NetworkFileSystem
-* The Andrew File System doesn't use traditional Unix permissions, but instead uses full ACL's, see
[AFSACLs
].
-* The Andrew File System supports having multiple replicated servers allowing
for high [Reliability] and [Availability]
-* 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.
-
-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...
-
-... So they sat down and started working on Intermezzo, Intermezzo is based on the same principles as Coda, along with the idea that Intermezzo should be as fast as using a local filesystem, and should do everything over well established protocols (such as [HTTP]). From what I have seen Intermezzo isn't anywhere near production quality yet, and Coda isn't used much and has been abandoned by it's developers. [AFS] however sounds like a great li'l network filesystem.
-
-"li'l" network filesystem? Try scaling anything else the same way [AFS] scales...
-
-OpenAfsUserCrashCourse
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-See [AFSNotes] for my notes on setting up an [AFS] server -- DanielLawson
+An
[Acronym
] for AndrewFileSystem
.
