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Re: [OpenAFS] ...Those That Help Themselves

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike W Ellwood)
Wed May 30 13:15:04 2001

Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:08:08 +0100 (BST)
From: Mike W Ellwood <mwe@rl.ac.uk>
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On 30 May 2001, William Setzer wrote:

> After our own bad experience, reading the number of horror stories
> being posted to these lists, and hearing from other Universities with
> similar tales, it has become fairly clear that IBM doesn't really care
> about AFS, and we are unlikely to see things getting better.  This is
> a big problem for NCSU, as AFS is a core component of making our
> academic environment work, and there's really nothing available with
> which to replace it.  I am certain that many of you are in the same
> boat.
 

Is anyone actually running production servers on OpenAFS yet?

If so, on which platforms?

Thank you.

Mike Ellwood                                      Mike.Ellwood@rl.ac.uk
               speaking for himself, and not for:
               CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 
                     Chilton, DIDCOT, Oxon
                     GB           OX11 0QX         
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