[OpenAFS] re: my afs wish list

[Derek Atkins]

Leif Johansson <leifj@it.su.se> writes:

> Douglas E. Engert wrote:
> 
> >Be careful with the wish list, it sounds like you are redesigning DCE and DFS.
> >
> >
> It would not be terribly difficult to have (say) an _optional_ pts
> server which acted
> as an ldap frontend. This would not affect people who want to run
> traditional AFS
> cells. Love is looking at this. It would help a lot of people and it
> wouldn't hurt
> anyone. Clearly (?) this is staying well away from the DCE rathole.

Considering that every fileserver access performs a getCPS(), having LDAP
behind the PTServer might really slow down the system.

>        Cheers Leif

-derek

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