[OpenAFS-devel] afs-nfs translator

[Derek Atkins]

Production setting?  Uh, I would certainly hope not.  The NFS
side of the protocol is completely insecure and could easily
be hacked.  Also, the translator has never, IMHO, been a stable
product.  It's been useful to me in rare occasions when I've
had a machine without an AFS client, but I would never, personally,
use a translator-based client for my real files.  I've lost way
too much data to the translator failing at just the wrong time.

-derek

Art Freeman <ajf@lehman.com> writes:

> Is there anyone using this method in a production setting?
> 
> --art
> 
> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > 
> > Note that on many platforms you can still export AFS via NFS in
> > read-only mode even without the AFS-NFS translator.  The translator is
> > useful mostly for RW access, which IMHO isn't always necessary.  It is
> > also useful for the few cases where you can't NFS export a "mounted"
> > filesystem.
> > 
> > -derek
> >

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