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In article <1482.6631T1384T1655@ida.his.se>, a95hanne@ida.his.se (Hannu Nevalainen) writes:
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>> +On 26-Feb-96 18:49:40 Christopher C. Wood
>> +<christw@meaddata.com>
>> +wrote about "Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???"
>> +in "comp.sys.amiga.advocacy"...
>
>> In article <Anders.Sundin-2502960158160001@aps.orgk2.lth.se>,
>> Anders.Sundin@orgk2.lth.se (Anders Sundin) writes:
>>|> danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
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>>|> >If the file is on an unmounted disk on another Mac, nobody is
>>|> >going to magically mount the remote disk for you.  If the file is
>>|> >on a Mac on a different continent, you'll be in deep trouble,
>>|> >while I can access it transparently via AFS, as if it were on my
>>|> >local disk.
>
>>|> Even if it was on an unmounted disk on a computer on a different
>>|> continent?
>
>> There are (I believe) AFS clients for a Macintosh.
>
> How strange! There is a "FileSystem" for the Amiga that uses the same acronym
> for its name; but that happens to be for harddisks and such only
> (gives better HD performance, storage use and safety).
>
> Is there some kind of relation between NFS(Unix) and AFS(Mac)?
> Can they "cooperate"?

The AFS I know and use stands for Andrew File System (Andrew as in CMU)
and has all kinds of neato stuff like having states, ACL's, intelligent
caching, Kerberos, and all the other stuff in the FAQ at http://www.transarc.com/

There's no reason you can't use AFS and NFS on the same machine, but I
don't know how much they can be made to cooperate.

Ravi
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