[OpenAFS] OpenAFS future ramblings

[Nathan Neulinger]

There actually is an old fileserver implemented that does something like
that, but it's got a lot of dust, and I believe it had to be built in a
fully krb 4 environment. 

-- Nathan

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 20:31, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> hi,
> 
> > > Actually, this would be sort of nice because then you could repeat
> > > cdroms and other mounts (perhaps even other network mounts) in part
> > > of your AFS namespace.  That's another "feature" of other network
> > > filesystems that I forgot to mention.
> 
> > oh, you want to *export* random things in the AFS file space. if you want
> > readonly, e.g. cdroms, literally, this could be done, but not likely from
> > random clients.
> 
> Well, would it be difficult to export any locally mounted filesystem
> read-only, and to set ACLs on the mount points only?
> That is all I really desire in that area.
> 
> Besides that, I think the original reply was talking about mounting
> local space under AFS space on that machine only.  If you can do it, why
> not, but I would also like it if AFS could serve as a repeater for
> filesystems that the fileserver has local mounts for.  (?)
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