[OpenAFS-devel] dcerpc.net - freedce

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:13:23PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> You still seem to be laboring under the (incorrect) idea that DFS is the
> result of taking AFS3 and slapping a DCE RPC interface on it.  

ah: fantastic, someone finally spelt it out: it's _significantly_
different, and a lot of work.

> That is not
> the case -- AFS4 was redesigned _from the ground up_ using concepts and
> techniques developed for AFS3.  Pretty much everything is different.  If
> you slap a DCE RPC interface on AFS3, the result will still differ from
> AFS4 in every way except the RPC protocol being used.  Of course, the
> actual interfaces would still be different, so you still haven't gained
> much.
> 
> 
> If you want to try to come up with an AFS3 variant that does DCE RPC
> instead of Rx, feel free.  Just don't expect the people on this list to be
> terribly interested in helping -- any of us that have time for working on
> OpenAFS are already spending it on things like adding features, fixing
> bugs, or porting to new platforms.

great: that answers my original question.  thanks for your time.

luke