Re: [K12OSN] NFS and Samba questions

[Julius Szelagiewicz <julius turtle com>]

Steve,
	you are right about the learning curve and hw requirements for
AFS. The key questions are how will the setup be used and over what kinds
of networks. The only real advantage of AFS is the true distributed
nature. It works well even over slow WAN links and does good encryption,
so you don't even have to worry about setting up a VPN.
	NFS is well known and easy to use and available on all ***x
computers, but it has some huge problems, the biggest being "advisory
locking" instead of real file / record locking. samba has the same problem
in a much bigger way - the buffer persistence that is not always
"negotiable" on windoze client. another biggie is somewhat problematic
connectivity over a WAN VPN. the truth is that the only stuff that has a
chance of working well over WAN is a real distributed database, but we are
talking money here. julius

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Steve Langasek wrote:
> The learning curve and hardware requirements for AFS are far beyond those
> for Samba, not to mention the administrative headache involved in trying
> to run AFS client software on all the Windows machines.  DFS may not be
> perfect, but it sounds like Quentin's already familiar with it, which
> makes it a lot easier to get working for him than a from-scratch AFS
> setup.
>
> For Linux client machines, I don't know that Samba's MSDFS support will be
> of much use, so maybe AFS is an option there -- although I think in those
> circumstances I'd look into NFS and an automounter as an option, first.
>
> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer
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