[OpenAFS] OpenAFS vs NFSv4?

[Nathan Neulinger]

Support for a reasonable number of platforms.
Location transparency.
Transparent on-the-fly moves of data.
Single namespace automatically. 
Built in snapshotting mechanism.

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 01:49, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for some information on the performance and other features
> of NFSv4.  Specifically, I am trying to compare it to AFS and OpenAFS in
> particular.
> 
> It seems that NFSv4 does two-way authentication, encryption
> of the stream, and has a client side cache now.  I use AFS and love it
> to death, but can anyone provide a short list of features that NFS still
> misses from AFS so that I can give proper advice?
> 
> Thanks.
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