FW: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] GSOC 2010: Userspace NFS->AFS translator

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

-----Original Message-----
From: "Jeffrey Hutzelman" <jhutz@cmu.edu>
Date: Friday, Apr 9, 2010 1:54 pm
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] GSOC 2010: Userspace NFS->AFS translator
To: <warlord@MIT.EDU>

The project in question isn't exporting AFS from a user-mode NFS server; it's creating a translator that runs _entirely_ in user mode, using libuafs.  That doesn't necessarily mean writing an NFS server from scratch, but if not, it means substantially modifying an existing one.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
>Date: Friday, Apr 9, 2010 1:42 pm
>Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] GSOC 2010: Userspace NFS->AFS translator To: Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu>
>CC: Nitish Sharma <sharmanitishdutt@gmail.com>, openafs-devel@openafs.org
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>Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> writes:
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>>> Actually, a translator which provided only unauthenticated access to
> AFS would likely be quite useful, and I suspect that alone will be a
> fairly substantial piece of work.  Dealing with user credentials will
> be a fairly late part of the project, if it fits into the GSoC
> timeline at all.
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>>Why would it be complicated?  There already exist user-space NFS Daemons out there.  So why would it be a "fairly substancial piece of work"?
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>>-derek
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