Re: Alternate solutions (Was: Re: NFS still has caching
Chai Harjo (h9304021@student.anu.edu.au)
Wed, 17 Jul 1996 07:50:47 +1000
At 06:39 PM 7/14/96 +0100, you wrote:
>> I recall that some candidates were mentioned some while ago. Anybody
>> working on this? Any progress?
>>
>> If not, maybe it's time to see if we can't come up with something ...
>
>The world is waiting for a decent networked file system with
>
>o Security
>o Replication support
>o Fast bulk transfer
>o Low latency
>
>and bonus points for parallelism across multiple servers (watch the parallel
>fsck problem).
>
>I don't see any reason why the Linux community shouldnt write it.
>
>Alan
Why don't you try AFS (Andrew File System)?
Visit : http://www.transarc.com
BTW, I never use AFS on Linux.
What is the status of AFS port to Linux?
Chai Harjo