[Macpartners] percentages

[Duncan Kincaid]

OpenAFS worked quite well in Panther (though still cumbersome to set  
up owing to need for matching Mac OS UIDs and Athena UIDs and NO  
Finder GUI for listing and setting ACLs, and Finder Error -32  
whenever copying/deleting files from across cells).

OpenAFS works noticeably less well under Tiger. Same problems as  
above but with occasional kernel panics thrown in.

I am encouraged by Al's note. Last I heard from an Apple engineer at  
a MacPartner's meeting: AFS is of little interest to Apple ("small  
static space--limited to higher education") and so Apple will not  
spend any significant resources on it.

Meanwhile MIT seems to be devoting more resources toward DFS... and  
no support for DFS (to say nothing of seamless integration) on Mac  
platform. Most recently they silently shutdown AFS services on their  
Citrix servers which killed us, as 46% of our users (Mac Users) could  
no longer access course lockers from their ArcGIS Citrix session....  
making ArcGIS on Citrix perfectly useless.

I suspect IS&T need reconsider their infrastructure plans (eg file  
services and printing) in light of growing Macintosh presence on campus.
Of course if our department's large mac user base (46% student, 76%  
faculty and staff) is an anomaly, then no such need.

thanks
dk





On Oct 17, 2006, at 2:48 AM, Albert Willis wrote:

>
> On Oct 17, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
>> I know it's available and more or less works, but the word I hear  
>> is that
>> there still are problems with its interaction with the Finder, and  
>> that bad
>> things happen when tickets/tokens expire... would be nice if Apple  
>> could
>> seriously get together with the OpenAFS folks to make it work well...
>>
>>                                          Alex
>
> AFS should work a lot better on Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard".
>
> Also, Apple is working with the Open AFS developers and have seeded  
> them with the prerelease version of Leopard and an Intel Mac.
>
> As we get closer to the release of Leopard, we should have more  
> details, but I expect that good things are in the works.
>
>   -- Al
>
>
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