[8800] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: NeXTStep AFS client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Sat Jan 26 17:20:47 2002
To: info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: <200201241723.MAA14667@minerva.psc.edu> (Esther Filderman's
message of "Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:23:14 -0500")
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:14:03 -0800
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Esther Filderman <ecf@psc.edu> writes:
> If I recall correctly, there was a CMU-invented AFS client for NeXTStep
> using something like AFS 3.0 or 3.1.
> It was incredibly flaky; people screamed and cried about it all the
> time. Even if some crazy fool still has it around somewhere, I'm not
> sure it would be particularly compatible with today's servers, even just
> for file access.
We were using a NeXTSTEP AFS client up to I think somewhere around 3.3 on
a whole cluster of machines. It worked great, apart from needing to mount
/afs as /.afs and use a few symlinks so that the file browser didn't
explore the world. I'm pretty sure we were still using it against 3.5
file servers.
Never broke with newer versions of AFS on the servers; lasted right up to
when we turned off our last cube.
Unfortunately, we've purged everything that we used to have that was that
old and don't still have a copy of the client. I think your best bet is
probably to find someone who still has a copy and then convince Transarc
that getting a copy from someone else who has a licensed copy isn't going
to hurt them any.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
