[OpenAFS-devel] afs-nfs translator

fba@zurich.ibm.com fba@zurich.ibm.com
Mon, 14 May 2001 16:22:13 +0200


NFS mounting the partitions won't help you very much. In AFS you will see
mostly nothing. In OpenAFS you see lots of files with special names and you
may pick the files you want (if you're lucky in guessing), but still it's
not what you really want to have.

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Not sure what you're intending here... The AFS-NFS translator presents AFS
data through an NFS interface, not the other way around. I don't see how it
would be useful to you for the purpose of retaining NetApp hardware.

You should probably just investigate NFS mounting the vice partitions (not
sure if that will work, but it's something you could try).

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Vincent [mailto:thomasv@apple.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 8:53 AM
> To: openafs-devel@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] afs-nfs translator
>
>
> 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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