[OpenAFS] Future of AFS? Interesting Ideas!?

Matthew Cocker matt@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:40:06 +1300


> Unless of course you're talking about full multi-directional
> synchronization, in which case, yeah, it gets a little more difficult -
> but most places I've heard of that have "enterprise permissions + user
> info" facilities in place do not care about bidirectional, they just
> don't want to have to reproduce data everywhere by hand, in which case,
> a simple periodic import is all that would be needed. 
> 
> -- Nathan
> 

Agreed. We only want and only do unidirectional for many reasons with 
security and simiplicity, but the many xml solutions are in fact 
bidirectional.

Cheers

Matt