[413] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: AFS and NeXTs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed._Zayas@transarc.com)
Thu Nov 14 15:08:20 1991
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 13:19:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Ed._Zayas@transarc.com
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: <Added.od8feR30Bi810A5E8P@transarc.com>
Folks...
Any change which would violate the single global AFS namespace would be
a very bad idea. As Wallace has said, this involves faking all kinds of
names for all kinds of machines, which would shoot any attempt at
reasonable wide-area collaboration in the foot. One thing I've learned
from dealing with many AFS users in numerous cells is that the global
namespace is *THE* most desired feature in AFS.
Non-portable, highly-localized pathnames: just say no.
Ed.
