[OpenAFS] SAMBA as a CIFS <-> AFS gateway

aeneous@speakeasy.org aeneous@speakeasy.org
Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:06:30 -0400


>     aeneous> Even if you could make that work, you'd never be able to
>     aeneous> guarantee the semantics -- you'd have cache coherence
>     aeneous> failures all over the place.
> 
> Why would you have any problems so long as only one AFS server mounted
> the CIFS share?

If you really could guarantee that, you'd probably be ok.  I'm of the school 
that believes that if it's possible to screw something up, it's just a matter 
of time.

I was thinking that the NetApp would be exporting the same files via CFS and 
NFS as well, but that obviously wouldn't be true.