How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?
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How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?
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Re: How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?
#2I remember using a cluster of RS/6000 (IBM's PowerPC) workstations that had AFS
Re: How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?
#3I remember using a cluster of RS/6000 (IBM's PowerPC) workstations that had AFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System
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!
Re: How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?
#4bootp & tftp FTW!
Re: How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?
#5bootp & tftp FTW!
Oooooooh yes! Flashback time!
Re: How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?
#6I remember using a cluster of RS/6000 (IBM's PowerPC) workstations that had AFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System
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!
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