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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mlbarrow@MIT.EDU)
Fri Aug 20 18:21:11 1993
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 18:19:48 -0500
To: belville@MIT.EDU
From: mlbarrow@MIT.EDU
Cc: resnet@MIT.EDU
>Subject: AFS in living group clusters?
>From: Sharon Belville <belville@MIT.EDU>
>To: resnet@Athena.MIT.EDU
>Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 11:32:27 EDT
>
>
>Living group clusters for the past year have been NFS, right? Will they
>continue to be so this fall, or will the first phase of Resnet imply AFS?
>
>Thanks,
>Sharon
ILGs with clusters have local system packs accessible via RVD. In addition,
they have backup system packs through AFS servers located on-campus. I
don't believe that there will be any changes in this mode of operation.
If an ILG purchases brand-new Athena workstations, the machines will
attempt to get their system software via AFS over the 56Kb/s link. Since
this is very slow there is a team investigating potential modifications to
improve performance.
I hope this answers your questions. If it doesn't or you have more
questions, please send email to resnet-help@mit.edu.
-- mlb
-- Michael L. Barrow
Resnet Support Coordinator/Network Analyst
Distributed Computing and Network Services
MIT Information Systems
Director, BCS Internet SIG
