[697] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Inessential Linux-Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Sep 16 14:24:45 1994
To: "\"\" Reid M. Pinchback \"\"" <reidmp@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, tytso@MIT.EDU, tjm@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Sep 1994 13:56:54 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 14:24:17 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Hi, Reid. Thanks for the comments. You wrote:
> 2. Are you sure you want to put this much effort into selling
> students on using the AFS-NFS translator without telling them at
> least once that the translators are unsupported and will be going
> away?
When we wrote that section of the the document, IS hadn't made this
decision yet. At this point, students have the choice of (a) not
using AFS at all, (b) using the translator, or (c) using an AFS client
which is still in beta. I have added a note that the translator is
slated to go away (end of 1994, isn't it?), but I don't think that
this will be crucial to anyone's decision.
When we the Linux-AFS client is out of beta, or at least a little bit
more usable than it currently is, we will start recommending it in
Inessential Linux-Athena.
