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How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?

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7 points by SeenNotHeard a month ago · 5 comments

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PaulHoule a month ago

I remember using a cluster of RS/6000 (IBM's PowerPC) workstations that had AFS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System

  • DamonHD a month ago

    I was NOT a fan of AFS. NFS was in practice much more reliable when the two were running side by side in my experience. NFS servers don't randomly and silently roll back months of changes for example, which is bad when the file system is holding your primary compiler image!

    • gladiatr72 a month ago

      Yeah, but for those of us running multi-vendor automounted/NFS networks (linux/intel, iris, hp/ux) that only read about AFS, it looked sooo cool. :D

gladiatr72 a month ago

bootp & tftp FTW!

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