[BBLISA] Chucking samba

[Toby Burress]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:30:23PM -0400, Grant Young wrote:
> I attended a class in the implementation of AFS at LISA a few years ago.
> I pretty much left after the first break.  I had experienced AFS at
> MIT and thought it might be a good secure filesystem to use in public
> facing network.  But basically, it takes too much rocket science to
> implement and support in a commercial environment.
>
> You have to wonder that TransArc tried to make it commercial and managed
> to get IBM to buy them on the promise, but then IBM gave up on it
> when there was no market and threw it back into the open source world.
> It failed commercially because it was too complex technically.

This is part of what I'm asking the list.  Everyone says AFS is a
nightmare to set up; I found it fairly simple.  What am I missing?