[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: patch: make jafs work again (at least the libadmin portion)
Derrick Brashear
shadow@gmail.com
Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:36:52 -0500
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On Dec 17, 2007 1:34 PM, Adam Megacz <megacz@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> Matt Benjamin <matt@linuxbox.com> writes:
> > I have wondered whether either is necessary. For most operations,
> > libadmin doesn't need a kernel.
>
> Sure, but AFAIK it is the only way to get programmatic access to the
> "fs" command suite (like "fs la"). The two near-term projects I'm
> interested in using this for are:
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> - "transitive fs la" and some other ACL-troubleshooting tools for
> novices
>
Technically, you *could* provide a mini-(dummy)-cache-manager in an
fs-workalike that meant you could just make RPCs directly from it with no
kernel.
I think Chaskiel already has all the code for this in some variant of afscp.
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2007 1:34 PM, Adam Megacz <<a href="mailto:megacz@cs.berkeley.edu">megacz@cs.berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Matt Benjamin <<a href="mailto:matt@linuxbox.com">matt@linuxbox.com</a>> writes:<br>> I have wondered whether either is necessary. For most operations,<br>> libadmin doesn't need a kernel.<br><br>Sure, but AFAIK it is the only way to get programmatic access to the
<br>"fs" command suite (like "fs la"). The two near-term projects I'm<br>interested in using this for are:<br><br> - "transitive fs la" and some other ACL-troubleshooting tools for<br> novices
<br></blockquote><div><br> Technically, you *could* provide a mini-(dummy)-cache-manager in an fs-workalike that meant you could just make RPCs directly from it with no kernel.<br><br>I think Chaskiel already has all the code for this in some variant of afscp.
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