[OpenAFS] Avoiding NTFS and FAT

[ajpearce]

Some answers I was hoping for:

"Oh yeah, I heard about this guy who hacked together an NFS server
with a ext3 IFS, downloadable at foo.com"
"OpenAFS will do exactly what you want and easily" - nearly got this
"Download this alternative filesystem for Windows at foo.com"

I'm now checking out CODA to see if this can help me get away from NTFS:
http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/winnt/

Here are some limitations I read about the current OpenAFS on Windows
from Altman:
http://web.mit.edu/jaltman/Public/OpenAFS/Reports/AFSig.se-2004-Windows-One-Year-Later.pdf:

"Path names restricted to 256 characters"
"Share names restricted to 13 characters"
"8-bit code pages; no Unicode"
"AFS Server not reliable yet"
SMB Unicode probably middle 2005

Network IFS: both GNU IFS and Microsoft IFS licenses are not
compatible with OpenAFS.org license
But binaries from OSR FSF are redistributable but pricing issue. They
have made consessions for CODA before AFS.




On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:51:38 -0500, Jeffrey B. Woodward
<Jeffrey.B.Woodward@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> >ajpearce <ajpearceuk@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I thought NTFS was in play because OpenAFS wouldn't let me use a ext3
> >>drive mounted using a IFS driver (ext2anywhere).
> >>
> >>"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 ?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I dont understand this statement..  What exactly are you trying to
> >"serve" to your thinclients?  I don't understand what you mean by
> >"UNIX compatible filesystems".
> >
> >Are you trying to serve a root filesystem?  Are you trying to serve
> >the /usr filesystem?  Are you trying to server applications and/or
> >homedirectory filesystems?  Any (but the first) is certainly possible
> >using AFS.  But it's still very unclear what you're trying to do and
> >what you mean by the buzzwords you're throwing around.
> >
> >-derek
> >
> >
> 
> Actually, for the really determined, you can even use OpenAFS for your
> root filesystem...takes a little work, but it has been done.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
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