[OpenAFS-devel] Fileserver as Masters Thesis

[Frank Bagehorn]

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Hi Nikke and Hannes,
> We see two roads to investigate:
> 
> Either do an implementation that uses an existing filesystem like the
> current NAMEI fileserver, or implement an AFS-server-specific file
> system.
How about two more proposals:
- I don't know how it would really perform, but you could create a 
fileserver that uses an underlying database.
- Or you create a virtual layer for the existing fileservers, so that you 
would have a well-defined interface to whatever lies below. (NAMEI or 
INODE or DB or whatever comes to peoples mind.)

Regards
Frank

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Dr. Frank Bagehorn
Manager Infrastructure Services ZRL IS
IBM Zurich Research Lab.
Saeumerstr. 4
CH-8803 Rueschlikon 
Switzerland
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