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- From: marshall@cs.iastate.edu (Bill Marshall)
- Subject: Re: What is AFS ???
- Message-ID: <marshall.725133594@stimpy.cs.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1h7nasINNlhm@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> <marshall.725054387@stimpy.cs.iastate.edu> <1992Dec23.141118.7847@asterix.drev.dnd.ca>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:59:54 GMT
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- louis@asterix.drev.dnd.ca (Louis Demers) writes:
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- >In <marshall.725054387@stimpy.cs.iastate.edu> marshall@cs.iastate.edu (Bill Marshall) writes:
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- >>rrp@cfm.brown.edu (Bob Petrocelli) writes:
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- >>>I noticed a reference to AFS when FTPing to archive.umich.edu...
- >>>What is AFS....How do I get it...
-
- >>...
- >> If you'd like more information on the AFS network and technology and its
- >>advantages, you can send e-mail to "info@transarc.com" or phone them
- >>up at 1-412-338-4400.
- >>==================
- >> ...
- >>AFS was developed at CMU and is supported my Transarc. It provides a
- >>distributed file system with consistent pathnames for any user on any
- >>machine. Transarc has some good info in the way of technical papers
- >>and brochures.
-
- > Is it freely available on the NET or is it sold by Transarc ?
-
- Rats. I thought I made that point.
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- It is sold by Transarc.
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- Depending on how many machines you have, it can reduce support costs
- and increase performance in comparison to NFS. Iowa State has > 600
- workstations running AFS.
-
- Bill
- --
- Bill Marshall
- Computer Science Department
- Iowa State University
- marshall@cs.iastate.edu
-