[Zope-ZEO] AFS Open Source

[Chris McDonough]

AFS is good stuff... I don't know much about Coda, but AFS is very stable
and is in production use in financial sector applications.  It also allows
for ACLs.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Monty Taylor" <mtaylor@goldridge.net>
To: "Bjorn Stabell" <bjorn@exoweb.net>
Cc: <zope-zeo@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 5:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-ZEO] AFS Open Source


> 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.
> >
>
>
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