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I've thought about trying out AFS; there are apparently open source server and clients available, and it seems to have some different design choices to let it w

I've thought about trying out AFS; there are apparently open source server and clients available, and it seems to have some different design choices to let it work nicely over WAN compared to NFS. Less clear that the FOSS versions do the user/permission management stuff (though maybe they do), but that wouldn't matter as much for personal use.

eichin 2y ago
Debian has the packages and some decent README's for setting up a server. OpenAFS is a later version than the IBM AFS you might have seen in the 90s and it has all of the user-management and ACL-related features - which are quite useful for personal use (sharing files with specific friends, instead of the entire internet; insert-only directories are also useful for that kind of thing.) It's definitely not for most people - it's a lot of sysadmin work for a homelab (though it does get you volume-level replication and shuffling, but you don't really get much out of that unless you have at least two machines as servers.) You're also going to need a personal kerberos realm (which isn't much work, it's just One More Thing.)