Re: Dropbox question

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From: Kristian M Zoerhoff
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:30

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On 2012-09-09 23:39, Cydrome Leader wrote:
> Kristian M Zoerhoff <kmz@lavabit.com> wrote:
>> On 2012-09-06 15:49, Mark Anderson wrote:
>>> In article presence@MUNGEpanix.com says...
>>>>> None of this is rocket science.  Perhaps some patent troll got a patent 
>>>>> on the functionality of rsync so Dropbox can't do that without paying 
>>>>> the dane geld.
>>>>
>>>> create some complex AFS setup.
>>>
>>> Thanks!  I have some reading to do.  Here's a relevant link from 
>>> Stanford for anyone from the future who ever reads this group.
>>>
>>> https://itservices.stanford.edu/service/afs
>>
>> If you actually implement this in AFS, I will come over to your rat hole
>> and punch you directly in the balls.
>>
>> Yes, I work with AFS daily.
> 
> any great stories? I think I last had a serious AFS chat with somebody 
> like 14 years ago.

Not really. As with everything else, we never put enough cash into basic
infrastructure, so we get things like shitty AFS performance due to
insufficient network bandwidth.

Oh, I did have to install OpenAFS on my ThinkPad a while back.
Performance over my DSL line is terrible, but being able to browse AFS
from a command line in Windows is pretty neat.

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