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Re: Hard Link Problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Gorlen)
Mon Jul 1 15:07:54 1991

Date: Mon,  1 Jul 1991 14:28:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Keith Gorlen <kgorlen+@alw.nih.gov>
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
Cc: Bob Dew <rdew+@alw.nih.gov>
In-Reply-To: <526c94ff4.000c364@caen.engin.umich.edu>

Excerpts from mail: 27-Jun-91 Re: Hard Link Problem paul
killey@caen.engin.u (893)


> Warning:  Religion++;

> To be candid, my personal point of view is that sharing things like
> mail and news spool areas via a filesystem protocol like AFS (or NFS, or
> whatever else I could think of) is an aberrant use of file systems and
> hope that people do not spend time making that doable.  That's a problem,
> and for a good reason.

> Religion = 0;

> --paul


We *would* like to have our news tree in AFS--not to *share* it, but so
it gets backed up along with everything else, and to take advantage of
AFS's disk space management facilities.


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