[OpenAFS] AFS from NFS Mount

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Sat, 12 Apr 2003 00:42:06 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Tim C. wrote:

>   Just some thoughts from my expirience...  It seemed to work okay using
> iname fileserver 1.2.7 on a linux box.  It had decent access time and
> such.  The problem I had was when either the nfs server, or the
> fileserver crashed.  It nearly destroyed all the data, crashed the fs
> process, and just was generally really pissed at me and took a lot of
> coaxing to even come back up.  So be sure to test this kinda problem
> before you even think about putting it in to production. ;)
>   Perhaps it was just my setup, or things have been done in later
> version to fix it, but... ;)

No changes have been made since 1.2.7 which would make the fileserver
perform any better with NFS-backed storage.