[OpenAFS-devel] GSOC 2010: Userspace NFS->AFS translator

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:20:22 -0400


Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> writes:

> Actually, a translator which provided only unauthenticated access to
> AFS would likely be quite useful, and I suspect that alone will be a
> fairly substantial piece of work.  Dealing with user credentials will
> be a fairly late part of the project, if it fits into the GSoC
> timeline at all.

Why would it be complicated?  There already exist user-space NFS Daemons
out there.  So why would it be a "fairly substancial piece of work"?

-derek

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