[OpenAFS] Avoiding NTFS and FAT

[Brandon S. Allbery]

ajpearce wrote:
> "AFS's permissions model is neither that
> of Unix nor that of Windows NTFS.  (Under certain circumstances, that makes
> it the worst of both worlds...)"
> 
> ^ so I see that AFS isn't the answer to serving UNIX compatible
> filesystems to my linux thinclient. In other words, I can't store all
> types of unix files on an OpenAFS volume. I couldn't, for example use
> OpenAFS to serve Linux ThinClients - re: ltsp.org ?

Correct.  In particular, neither fifos (named pipes) nor device nodes can be 
stored in AFS.

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