[8801] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: NeXTStep AFS client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Cook)
Mon Jan 28 13:11:05 2002
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:53:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Bob Cook <bobcook@slac.stanford.edu>
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:
>We were using a NeXTSTEP AFS client up to I think somewhere around 3.3 on
>a whole cluster of machines.
Ditto.
> It worked great
The one problem I remember is that every NeXT did an fsck every time it was
booted. They didn't find anything, but it certainly took a while.
I don't remember which version of the file servers it worked with.
>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
We do, although I don't know for how long.
> and then convince Transarc
>that getting a copy from someone else who has a licensed copy isn't going
>to hurt them any.
Good luck on that piece.
