Re: Slow OpenPanel under AFS?

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From: Garance A Drosehn
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 03:44

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hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
> Could someone explain, for us "abbreviation-impaired" people, who may
> have missed the original postings, what AFS means (I presume A... File
> System, or is it just "a file system" ;-)) and what it is good for? 
> --
> Hardy 

According to the latest literature, AFS has no meaning these days.  It's  
just a name of a product.  Before it was the name of a product, it stood  
for "Andrew File System".

It's a distributed file system, which has a number of advantages over  
things like NFS.  We have it here at RPI.  I personally like it a lot more  
than NFS.  "Transarc" is the name of the company which does all the AFS  
stuff.

And for the TLA mill:  Transarc is also working on the follow-on to AFS,  
which will be called DFS.  DFS is part of DCE.

Cheers.

--
Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA

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