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  1. Re:Why not an open source solution? by buildboy · · Score: 1 · on MS getting rid of SAMBA?

    There is an open-source alternative to SMB: OpenAFS

    From the website:

    What is AFS?
    AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for file sharing, providing location independence, scalability and transparent migration capabilities for data.

    What is OpenAFS?
    IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the source available for community development and maintenance. They called the release OpenAFS.

  2. Re:okay okay.... I'm not informed... by altair1 · · Score: 1 · on XFS 1.0 is Released
    > I believe it is the only ACL-enabled file system
    > for Linux which has such utilities (unless you
    > count AFS).

    well, AFS is really a network filesystem (kinda like NFS or SMB), rather than a "local" filesystem, like ext2, NTFS, reiserfs, etc. AFAIK XFS is among the later. An AFS server stores the files it holds in an ordinary local filesystem, like ext2 or xfs. Its ACLs are implemented in network daemons.

  3. AFS has very good support for ACLs by Doodhwala · · Score: 4 · on Access Control Lists In Linux Filesystems?

    This is a networked file system, but OpenAFS has excellent support for ACLs. I am personally using it at Carnegie Mellon and its used at a host of other places like MIT. And its not a patch but simply a module you compile for the kernel. I got it running on my linux system in 15 minutes. Also has excellent support for security (see Kerberos).

  4. Mumblings of a real hacker.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2 · on The Hacker Ethic And Linux Kernel 2.4

    These people in this ugly story are _NOT_ hackers. These are guys who enjoy playing with the latest greatest software and building new shit. The _REAL_ hackers are the ones making the code changes...something that more and more sys admins don't do. Way back in the days...all sys admins were hackers...today they just maintain the latest greatest stable stuff on their systems. The only sys admins I have _ever_ seen that are hackers can be found at places like Open AFS...legacy mature stuff that the old school sys admins still love.

    Just because you use Linux or BSD or whatever..._DOES NOT_ make you a hacker...when you start contibuting...you can than call yourself a hacker.

  5. Re:AFS by mattdm · · Score: 2 · on Samba And Netatalk - Is There A Better Solution?
    AFS isn't trivial to set up and maintain. It's very cool, though. For those interested, check out OpenAFS, based on an open source fork of the IBM/Transarc codebase, and Arla, a completely from scratch open source implementation.

    The Arla client works very well, but I don't think the server is considered stable. I'm not sure about the server side of OpenAFS either.

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