[OpenAFS] OpenAFS future ramblings

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Ryan Underwood wrote:

> 
> hi,
> 
> > [ What would probably be most handy here is
> >   if you had some sort of ability, on a per-machine basis, to mount
> >   local machine file space under AFS.  By making this part of the cache
> >   manager, and not part of AFS, I think that elimates most of the problems.
> >   Whether it's still worth it is another question. ]
> 
> Actually, this would be sort of nice because then you could repeat
> cdroms and other mounts (perhaps even other network mounts) in part
> of your AFS namespace.  That's another "feature" of other network
> filesystems that I forgot to mention.

oh, you want to *export* random things in the AFS file space. if you want
readonly, e.g. cdroms, literally, this could be done, but not likely from
random clients.

> I found the info about kAFS; apparently, it is a Red Hat project, or at least
> as it was discussed on the mailing list.

sure, but it's not portable. it's linux-only.