[rescue] AFS?

Joshua D Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Nov 23 10:59:28 CST 2001


On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 11:36:51AM -0500, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
> I did a clean install of Solaris 8 on two machines, an Ultra1 and an 
> Ultra30, both with FDDI cards. The U1 can use a nfs share from a 
> linux server just fine, I've been installing packages all day long off of 
> it. The Ultra30 cannot use the share, I map it but that's about all. ls 
> often hangs, file copy hangs, pkgadd hangs, it just doesn't work 
> right. I don't much like nfs in the first place and with IBM's recent 
> open-sourcing of AFS it looks like a nice alternative, any of you 
> guys ever used AFS? How does it work with Solaris/Linux?

This is very interesting.

What kernel are your running on the linux machine, and what distribution and
version?

I'm also interested in hearing about AFS experience.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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