[OpenAFS] AFS on NFS?

Tino Schwarze tino.schwarze@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:32:49 +0200


On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:06:18PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote:
> OK I know it sounds insane, but just humour me, does it have a chance in 
> hell of working?
> 
> IE
> 
> mount -t nfs server:/mnt/vicepb /vicepb
> 
> before the AFS processes are started?
> 
> Just curious, I have various amounts of storage on my home network 
> including some 80Gb SNAP!s that obviously can't run AFS ;)

That would work if you use a NAMEI-based file server (which is default
on Linux).

Have a look at
http://grand.central.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/SupportedConfigurations

HTH! Tino.

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