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From: gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin)
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Subject: Re: AFS in Amiga UNIX
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Date: 13 Nov 90 07:58:35 GMT
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In article <134019@pyramid.pyramid.com> telam@pyrps5.pyramid.com (Thomas Elam) writes:
>I've heard of AFS.  It's supposed to be great.  Something like NFS but
>much better, right?

Right.  AFS is faster, more stable and provides for better control where
security is concerned.  It is more suited to distributed file service also.
It is at least 10x faster than NFS in most cases.  The reason for this is
that it caches the file on your local disk (assuming you have one 8-) so
you don't have to send things over the network time and again whenever you
access the file.  This cache is filled in an LRU style.
			See ya, Ralph


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