[OpenAFS] Big Initial Question about OpenAFS
Robinson, Eric
eric.robinson@pmcipa.com
Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:59:28 -0800
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Network connectivity differs significantly between NFS and Samba. With
CIFS/Samba, shares may participate in a DFS tree and appear to the
client as a single unified tree. However, when the client actually
connects to a resource, he is redirected to the IP address of the server
that holds the resource, so he ends up communicating with multiple
hosts. With NFS, a server mounts the remote filesystem(s) and the client
communicates only with one machine.
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Which is OpenAFS more like? I am hoping it is more like NFS because I
have to work around firewall limitations. I am hoping that I can
communicate solely with the OpenAFS server, and it will in turn
communicate with other servers that it has mounted. Is that the way it
works?
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Eric Robinson
Director of Information Technology
Physician Select Management, LLC
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