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I heard that sun had v4 now with integrated cryptography, etc. (Actual
usernames instead of just trusting usernumbers from the clients!!)
-- noah silva
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 13:08, Sean Finney wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:51:55AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > Depends on the situation. AFS is definitely nowhere near as fast as
> > NFS (v3, which I don't think Linux even speaks anyway); it's
>
> linux speaks v3, but it's a compile-in option for the kernel or
> module that's not enabled by default iirc. The configs you want are
>
> CONFIG_NFS_V3=y (or 'm')
> CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
> CONFIG_NFSD=y (or 'm')
> CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
>
> > Berkeley's xFS (not to be confused with the X font server or SGI's
> > XFS, which is a local file system) is a networked, distributed file
> > system used in the GLUnix cluster out there. It rocks. You dedicate
> > some portion of a given disk to the xFS cluster, then you can just
> > write things into that partition. When a given node gets a write
> > lock on a file, it'll be transfered to that node on writes.
> > Subsequently, it's served from that node until someone else gets a
> > write lock. (This works fine on a fast, tightly connected network.
> > If you haven't got one of those, you already wanted AFS or CODA
> > anyway.)
>
> I was just looking into xFS the other day, and unless I was on the wrong
> site (it was a link off the berkeley NOW project), it looks like
> it's neither stable or actively maintained (last update, 1997). Is
> there somewhere else that has a more recent version?
>
> --sean
>
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