[OpenAFS] Iscsi or san support.

[Russ Allbery]

Dennis O Aliev <daliev@etecom.com> writes:

> I'm new to openafs and would like to get a more clear picture after
> reading documentation.

> Is it possible to have client hosts access data directly from SAN type
> device (iSCSI in our case) instead of using openafs server?

No, not if the data is in AFS.  AFS does not support access to data that
it manages via mechanisms other than over the AFS protocol, except at a
very low-level, do-it-yourself, useful-only-for-testing sort of way.  It
is not like NFS; it does not export an existing traditional file system.

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