> I was always surprised [AFS] (or a similar mechanism) was not available in corporate offices. In some ways it was self-fulfilling - corporate offices didn't

> I was always surprised [AFS] (or a similar mechanism) was not available in corporate offices. In some ways it was self-fulfilling - corporate offices didn't use it, so there wasn't a great ecosystem, so corporate offices did not use it. There were a handful of vendors, all with drawbacks. On a large network, AFS, or particular cells or filesystems could get into a weird state. It was not like Solaris NFS where most senior sysadmins understood the filesystem error states. You want to feel you are putting data into something safe, permanent and always accessible, and AFS never felt like that in corporate environments I was in.