[OpenAFS-devel] afs-nfs translator

[Art Freeman]

IMHO having read-only access would be useful for 
legacy systems systems no longer supported by Transarc (e.g.
SunOS 4.x). 


Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> 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