[OpenAFS-devel] afs-nfs translator

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Harald Barth wrote:
> 
> > > -How problematic is this for people? Does anyone care? How much? Is
> this
> > > on anyone's list of things to work on?
> > 
> > I see the following uses for the translator:
> > 
> > * Access from OS:es where native AFS is "difficult" for some reason.
> >   Examples are Unicos10 and Fujitsu/Siemens UXP/V, Our Cray is no
> >   longer in production and the Fujitsu will probably soon follow.
> >   I don't see any new "difficult" OS:es at the horizon, but other
> >   sites may have other hardware with other strange software.
> 
> The thing I was going to do some time ago and never got to, and probably
> never will, was basically grafting an nfsv3 frontend to one of the
> userlevel cache managers (the Arla cache manager or the OpenAFS
> usermode one, or both) and essentially re-exporting AFS from a machine to
> itself via NFS, because I think it would be easier than playing around in
> the kernel. I haven't re-evaluated the position recently.

My preference would be to see no additional time spent on the kernel-mode
translator in OpenAFS.  It's in pretty sorry shape as it is, and there's
really no need for this functionality to be in the kernel to begin with.
Instead, I'd like to see some work on a portable, 100% user-mode NFS-AFS
translator.

-- Jeff