[OpenAFS] What filesystem?

Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:29:19 -0800

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1.	What's your line of business?
2.	Do Road Warriors need secure access?
3.	What OS's are in use?
4.	Any federal regulations involved?
5.	How many users?
6.	How many sites?
7.	Do you need byte level locking?
8.	Is Morgan Stanley big enough?

http://www.pmw.org/afsbpw05/workshop.html look at the NW Air ppt slides. AFS
is accepted by the FAA.

tedc

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From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org]
On Behalf Of John Bass
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 1:12 PM
To: openafs-info@openafs.org
Subject: [OpenAFS] What filesystem?

Hi,

I hope everyone doesn't mind if I repeat a question.  One of the few
responses I did get said I should be more complete in asking my question.

My boss is trying to choose one distributed file system from NFS and MS-DFS
and so on, from my feeling, AFS sounds like the best choice, it is secure
and is being used by many large institutes, such as  Harvard, MIT, NASA,
Stanford, etc.   Actually GrandCentral.org says they use it, I cant tell for
sure if that means the whole place, or one department, or a couple of people
in a lab. 

In order to convince my boss, I have searched via Internet, expected to find
some kind of comparison between AFS, NFS and MS-DFS, or some web pages that
could have something tracking the usage of each file system, which can be
used to prove/indicate AFS is better than the others. But except for an
outdated IBM AFS whitepaper, I didn't find any solid evidence or data that I
can present to my boss. I ha d hoped to find a source of information such
as websites that track Linux <http://counter.li.org/> installs or
MSIE/Opera/Mozilla
<http://www.websidestory.com/products/web-analytics/datainsights/spotlight/0
5-10-2005.html> usage (or this
<http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2005/05/25/firefox-num
ber-one-here/> ), but it seems hards to find. I see openafs.org has
"Success Stories", but there are only five!

Anybody can see that some of very smart people made and use AFS, but how can
an overworked person like me convince my also overworked boss that we should
spend the money and time necessary to learn, deploy, train, and support AFS
enterprize-wide?    

I wonder if anyone of you have had this kind of situation before, or may
have something that I can use to convince my boss.

Thank you in advance for any kindly assistance.

John Bass

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<a
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<b><span style=3D'font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [OpenAFS] What
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Hi, 
 
I hope everyone doesn't mind if I repeat a question.&nbsp; One of the =
few
responses I did get said I should be more complete in asking my =
question. 
 
My boss is trying to choose one distributed file system from NFS and =
MS-DFS and
so on, from my feeling, AFS sounds like the best choice, it is secure =
and is
being used by many large institutes, such as&nbsp; Harvard, MIT, NASA, =
Stanford,
etc.&nbsp;&nbsp; Actually GrandCentral.org says they use it, I cant tell =
for
sure if that means the whole place, or one department, or a couple of =
people in
a lab. 
 
In order to convince my boss, I have searched via Internet, expected to =
find
some kind of comparison between AFS, NFS and MS-DFS, or some web pages =
that
could have something tracking the usage of each file system, which can =
be used
to prove/indicate AFS is better than the others. But except for an =
outdated IBM
AFS whitepaper, I didn't find any solid evidence or data that I can =
present to
my boss.&nbsp; I ha d hoped to find a source of information such as =
websites
that track <a href=3D"http://counter.li.org/">Linux</a> installs or <a
href=3D"http://www.websidestory.com/products/web-analytics/datainsights/s=
potlight/05-10-2005.html">MSIE/Opera/Mozilla
usage</a> (or <a
href=3D"http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2005/05/25/f=
irefox-number-one-here/">this</a>),
but it seems hards to find.&nbsp; I see openafs.org has &quot;Success
Stories&quot;, but there are only five!&nbsp; 
 
Anybody can see that some of very smart people made and use AFS, but how =
can an
overworked person like me convince my also overworked boss that we =
should spend
the money and time necessary to learn, deploy, train, and support AFS
enterprize-wide?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 
I wonder if anyone of you have had this kind of situation before, or may =
have
something that I can use to convince my boss. 
 
Thank you in advance for any kindly assistance. 
 
 
John Bass<o:p></o:p>

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