| C. F. Everhart. Conventions for names in the service directory in the AFS distributed file system. Technical report, Transarc Corporation, March 1990. |
....set of clients. In order to access a file on the server, the user must be defined as a user on the server machine and the client machine must be added to the export list of the server. Both of these operations are privileged, i.e. require the intervention of a system administrator. 2. 4 AFS AFS [16, 35, 36, 10] is probably the most widely used wide area file system. AFS mounts all remote file systems under a single directory ( afs) The set of remote directories available under the global mount point is managed locally and changes require the privileges of a system administrator. AFS uses Kerberos [18] ....
C. F. Everhart. Conventions for names in the service directory in the AFS distributed file system. Technical report, Transarc Corporation, March 1990.
....administrative realms, so anyone they may want to collaborate with should be in the same realm. Kerberos [1] authentication suffers from this problem. System administrators responsible for setting up user accounts often could not do so without the intervention of the Kerberos administrator. AFS [2] uses Kerberos for authentication. Administrators of AFS client machines must enumerate every single file server the client can talk to. A user of an AFS client cannot access a server the administrator did not include. CapaFS avoids the problem of centralised control by implementing a file system ....
Everhart, C. F. Conventions for names in the service directory in the AFS Distributed File System. In Technical report, Transarc Corporation, March 1990
....name spaces. This indirect naming can be of arbitrary depth, but it is completely transparent to the user. The relationship among all logical name spaces is, however, arbitrary and voluntary without central authorities [Mich87] specific configurations [Cher89] or any kind of naming conventions [Zaya88, Ever90]. Because of autonomy, this property is extremely important to scale well in the internet. 2.2.3 Multiple Mounts A skeleton directory might have more than one reference. We call this a multiple mount. For example, there are three references associated with the skeleton directory bin: f UFS, ....
Everhart, C. F. Conventions for names in the service directory in the AFS Distributed File System. Technical report, Transarc Corporation, March 1990.
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