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>>chmayn+(OP)
I can't believe they didn't toss in the "Not Working Filesystem" joke as a freebie.

Another way to have thumb-twiddling fun was for all the machines in a building to reboot - power failure, whatever - and then spend a lot of time waiting for each other's cross-mounted NFS shares to come up.

P.S.

> such as AFS (the Andrew File System)

That one prompted a senior engineer, on learning that it was to be deployed to undergrad's lab machines, to let slip "Why inflict it on the hapless livestock?"

>>B1FF_P+49
AFS had (has?) a nice ACL implementation, compared to the opportunity that NFS provided of mangling security with UID mismatches.

>>eddyfr+ZB1
I wasn't directly involved, but I think the AFS design was OK, the problem was that they were deploying "diskless" workstations (just the OS, no data on the local HD).

Back in the day of 1 MHz machines, with 3 Mbps net, having your home dir on a network file system was a tad hopeful - or hopeless ...