User:Tiicoo:AFSKRB/Introduction

Having a look on some network filesystems commonly used you will notice restrictions regarding subnet topologies or distribution of meta and real data distribution.

Maybe you have heard about OpenAFS, Coda, Intermezzo and/or Distributed Filesystem.

In this book you will get a detailed view inside OpenAFS and important services provided by Kerberos.

Often you find HOWTOs teaching you on how you can solve a problem. It is a goal of this book to teach you why that specific problem exists. Understanding causale and action is much more effective than "googling" for the specific error as it enables you to save time. So let us see this book as WHYTO.