[Novalug] OT: 2TB Storage (mentioned at meeting)

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

Lee Burton wrote:
> Well there is always AFS (both openafs/arla).. which supports 
> windows/linux/OSX/ some bsds.  It requires a bit more reading and work, but 
> once its up and running its very good, and very scalable.  (we have 4 
> terabytes of storage on it at work, spread over a bunch of machines.. and I 
> have a good half terabyte at home)
Right, except that AFS is just plain WEIRD with it's wacko permissions. 
A little more UNIX like would have gone a long way. At least NFS 
attempts to look like a local filesystem.

The Non-UNIX world will never support AFS, and most of the UNIX world 
didn't either.

JIM