[rescue] AFS?

Patrick Giagnocavo rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Nov 23 10:58:01 CST 2001


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?

Let me just say, I would love to hear about this as well.  

I have checked out the arla and openafs.org pages, and just need some
more info before I spend some time setting up such a system.

Cordially

Patrick



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