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"Robin S. Socha" <rsocha@kens.com> writes:

> * Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> [010411 01:56]:
> > On 10 Apr 2001, Jason R. Mastaler wrote:

> > > NFS, 
> > Here, I agree completely. 
> 
> Who cares? 

For example people who hava a lab full of random machines (Suns, HPs,
x86, SGIs) that all need to access the same set of disks (about 1TB
worth of them).

> AFS and Coda are available.

honest question: do they give acceptable performance (i.e. comparable
to decent NFSv3 implementations) and stability under heavy load (i.e.
do not crash every other week)?

 Gunnar