Differences between version 6 and predecessor to the previous major change of AFS.
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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Tuesday, April 29, 2003 11:21:07 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Monday, April 14, 2003 9:14:51 am | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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* 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.
Information about setting up OpenAFS under Debian: http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=816
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+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...
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+... 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.
