[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x

[Neulinger, Nathan]

I thought that one of the solutions included a filesystem key as part of
the pag identifier... but maybe not... not sure why you'd really need to
have different pags for different filesystems, but who knows...=20

-- Nathan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]=20
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:03 PM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> Cc: OpenAFS-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x
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> "Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu> writes:
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> > PAGs have nothing to do with ACLs.  They are used for=20
> controlling what
> > processed have access to what tokens in the kernel.
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> > A very reasonable solution was presented to linux-kernel.=20
> The problem is
> > that they all insisted on blowing it up into the nightmarish key
> > management system instead of just treating PAGs as the=20
> simple construct
> > that they are - which the patch did in a pretty reasonable manner.
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> To play devil's advocate, the proposed solution worked for AFS but
> nothing else..  PAGs from AFS would/could interfere with PAGs from
> NFS, for example.  I don't recall a decent solution to that problem.
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> > -- Nathan
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> -derek
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