[OpenAFS] key issues for OpenAFS future?

[Nathan Neulinger]

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 16:25, Jimmy Engelbrecht wrote:
> "Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu> writes:
> 
> > OpenAFS works fine with journalled filesystems. The only incompatability
> > is that you cannot use reiserfs as your cache partition with 2.4.x+
> > kernels since reiserfs does not support retrieving a file from disk from
> > just the inode number, unlike most other unix filesystems. 
> > 
> > Ext3 works just fine as a cache partition, and ANY of the filesystems
> > works for server vice partitions. 
> 
> As far i know you cant turn on logging on your /vice - partitions on
> solaris if dont want things to break. You say it works now ? Do i have to
> run namei-filerserver then ?

Ah. You're right. So much of the stuff lately is linux centric, I forgot
that we can be talking about other platforms.

So, yeah, anything with Namei is ok, but with the non-namei servers, you
are limited. 

> I am sure you cant run your /vice-partitions on AdvFS on Tru64, which sucks
> pretty much.
> 
> I dont think we support /vice in XFS on IRIX either, or i am wrong ?
> 
> /Jimmy

I'd say as long as it's namei, it'll work fine. Otherwise, yeah, it
won't work.

-- Nathan

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