[OpenAFS] OpenAFS vs NFSv4?

[Jon Bendtsen]

Ted Anderson wrote:
> On 4/28/2003 08:02, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
> 
>> Support for a reasonable number of platforms.
>> Location transparency.
>> Transparent on-the-fly moves of data.
>> Single namespace automatically. Built in snapshotting mechanism.
> 
> 
> To Nathan's list of AFS advantages, I'd add:
>   + Directory caching (NFSv4's delegation doesn't work for dirs)
>   + Volumes
>   + Simpler, per-directory ACLs
> To be fair we should also add AFS negatives:
>   - Proprietary data format (NFS exports regular file systems)

What if AFS was stored ontop of a filesystem that supported
the same, or more ACL's that openafs does. Could it then also
just be a regular file ?
If NFS4 has ACL's, how does it handle those exporting a regular
UserGroupOther filepermission ?





JonB