Managing AFS The Andrew File S

Campbell, Richard

ISBN 10: 0138027293 / ISBN 13: 9780138027292

Published by Prentice Hall, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Managing AFS The Andrew File S

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis:

This book describes, in detail, the benefits of using the AFS distributed file system in large and small organizations. By relieving administrators of inefficiencies of scale and allowing users to retrive files effectively from anywhere in their organization. This book demonstrates the power of using an integrated, fully functional, and centrally managed system to provide a ubiquitous and reliable data storage system. This book explains how to manage AFS to its greatest effect incuding the installation of an adequate server setup to handle thousand of clients with a minimum of administrator and hardware overhead.

About the Author:

RICHARD CAMPBELL has worked for the last five years as a distributed computing consultant on Wall Street. Previously, he was a senior researcher at the Institutional File System Project at the University of Michigan, which established AFS as the distributed file system for the campus of over 30,000 users.