Re: AFS vs NFS vs DCE

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From: Bill Marshall
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:02

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efroyman@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Ella Froyman) writes:

>Can anybody point out to me the differnces between AFS vs OSF's DCE.
>What is AFS? what are the differences between AFS vs NFS. On what
>platform does AFS run? How do Implement? How much does it cost?

I'll try to briefly address this.

AFS is the Andrew File System, developed at CMU and now supported by
Transarc Corp. AFS runs on many unix platforms. Email
afs-sales+@transarc.com for more info. They have a nice package they
send out.

AFS provides the same basic file system on all machines in the AFS
system which can include any machine on the Internet.
AFS caches file access on the local disk to provide better performance
than NFS.

OSF DCE is an entire suite of tools to help develop and support
distributed computing. AFS is part of DCE. It has been chosen for the
DCE distributed file system.

Dislaimers: (Do I really need them???) I've just use all of the above.

Bill

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			    Bill Marshall
		     Computer Science Department
			Iowa State University
		       marshall@cs.iastate.edu

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