[OpenAFS] OpenAFS future ramblings

[Russ Allbery]

Marcus Watts <mdw@umich.edu> writes:

> 	[ What would probably be most handy here is if you had some sort
> 	of ability, on a per-machine basis, to mount local machine file
> 	space under AFS.

Solaris can already do this.  I think Linux can too.  AFS shouldn't need
to care whether you're doing this or not.

>> 2) Hard links.  I don't know why people want or need them.  But, is it
>> impossible?

> No, just difficult.  You'd have to change how files are stored in AFS,
> you'd have to change the salvager (and you now have a more difficult
> problem to solve because files could be anywhere in your volume not just
> confined to one directory)), and you might have to change the "vos dump"
> format some.  You probably don't want to link files across volumes - so
> you won't gain all that much.  Per-file acls would (IMHO) be more
> valuable.

Unless I'm missing something, you need per-file ACLs to have hard links.
Otherwise, what ACL applies to modifying the file?

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>