[Zope-ZEO] AFS Open Source

[Monty Taylor]

Bjorn Stabell wrote:

> Coda is open source too, isn't it?  Why use AFS?  Also, for
> synchronizing product trees I find rsync or rdist are quite sufficient;
> at least then I can control when I want to synchronize them.

Well, Coda is still a bit green, whereas AFS has certainly been around the
bend a few times. Even the Coda people recommend not using Coda in
production yet.
On of the main reasons I'd use AFS or Coda rather than rsync/rdist is so
I could still use the products that insist on writing something to the
filesystem. (WorldPilot) AFS has a lot of other things going for it, but
you're right -- it is a bit of overkill for small installations.

>
> I wish it was the other way around: ZODB was available as a file system,
> so I could use a toolset of XML applications to interactively analyze or
> change it, from the command line. :)
>

I wholeheartedly agree. :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monty Taylor [mailto:mtaylor@goldridge.net]
> Posted At: Monday, November 13, 2000 19:42
> Posted To: Zope Enterprise
> Conversation: [Zope-ZEO] AFS Open Source
> Subject: [Zope-ZEO] AFS Open Source
>
> I'd like to point out, for those who don't read slashdot every minute,
> that IBM has released AFS as Open Source. AFS is the ancestor of the
> Coda filesystem, and is one of the coolest Distributed filesystems out
> there. It's a beast, administration wise, but it certainly could help
> keeping the product tree in sync across multiple ZEO clients. We're
> working implementing it here, and if we finish before I leave, I'll
> certainly let everyone know how it goes.
>