[OpenAFS] Avoiding NTFS and FAT

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, ajpearce wrote:

> I thought NTFS was in play because OpenAFS wouldn't let me use a ext3
> drive mounted using a IFS driver (ext2anywhere).

Are you trying to serve files from Windows, or serve files to Windows? In 
the former case, you aren't exporting a view of a FAT or NTFS. In the 
latter case, the drive you get is neither FAT nor NTFS.

> "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.

No, so you misinterpreted Brandon's comment. Don't worry. A murderous 
cyborg is on its way over to clean him up now.

> 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 ?

You can't store device nodes or sockets in AFS. sockets, because the model 
doesn't make sense. device nodes, because major/minor are non-portable.

Has precious little to do with ACLs.