[OpenAFS] AFS from NFS Mount

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:15:22 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Brent Johnson wrote:

> Okay. Interesting.  I thought it was a long-standing rule (don't ask
> where I got this from) that you couldn't use an NFS-mounted filesystem
> as a vice partition on a fileserver.  We're running Solaris and have
> some Network Appliance Filers running around.  So you're saying that I
> could mount share from the filer on my Solaris 8 fileserver and make
> that my vice partition?

your afs clients will be sad when reads block if nfs gets sad, but using
nfs behind namei should at least be possible.