[OpenAFS-devel] afs-nfs translator

[Derek Atkins]

I think you misunderstand.  The AFSxNFS translator allows you to
access an AFS filesystem from an NFS client.  It does NOT let you
export NFS files via AFS.  Your NetApps will still be unusable.

-derek

"Thomas Vincent" <thomasv@apple.com> writes:

> 75% of the people on this list have been AFS users before OpenAFS existed.
> The other 25% of people, like myself, did not consider it as a option , or
> see the need for it before recently. I have a lot of Network Appliance
> NetApp's on campus. Some of these clusters I want to give the option of
> moving off NFS. They don't want to throw away their NetApp's. A NFS
> translator would solve this problem.
> I find a lot of companies get NetApp's and then realize the drawbacks' of
> NFS later. They can't afford to throw away the 100K they just blew on this
> NetApp.
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas Vincent
> 
> Opinions are my own and do no necessarily reflect my employers.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derrick J Brashear" <shadow@dementia.org>
> To: <openafs-devel@openafs.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 9:31 AM
> Subject: [OpenAFS-devel] afs-nfs translator
> 
> 
> > Since it will be an issue up for discussion at the next OpenAFS elders
> > meeting:
> > -the AFS-NFS translator is currently unsupported in OpenAFS since there
> > are missing files
> > -How problematic is this for people? Does anyone care? How much? Is this
> > on anyone's list of things to work on?
> >
> > Some future work can be simplified if we don't need to worry about
> > supporting it in the future, but if we are likely to care, it would be
> > good to know now.
> >
> > -D
> >
> >
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