[OpenAFS] Silly question, Just interested

[Nathan Davis]

If I understand my AFS lore correctly, Vice is the name of the cache manager
(i.e., client side), and Venus is the name of the server portion.  However, I
don't know what the significance, if any, of those names are.

--Nathan Davis

matt@njit.edu wrote:

> What is the origin of "vice" used in dir names for the client software?
> (/vicepxx, /usr/vice etc.. ) seems to only have to do with cache
> manager.
>
> Just wondering...
> Thanks
> -Matt
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