[OpenAFS] OpenAFS vs NFSv4?

[Norman P. B. Joseph]

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 10:50, Rodney M Dyer wrote:

> My conspiracy theory is that NAS and SAN companies want to keep you 
> "buying-in" to their product lines.  They don't really want the abstraction 
> of the "global namespace" idea getting out, it would change the way 
> business is done.

Check out what Spinnaker Networks is trying to do with their NAS
product:

	http://www.spinnakernet.com/

They're hiding AFS functionality behind a NAS head, serving out CIFS &
NFS (thus no client-side code requirements, -or- byte-range locking
issues).  They support global namespace and volume location hiding.

So, at least one NAS company gets the idea of the "global namespace",
and is selling (or trying to sell) on that idea.

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