[OpenAFS] re: my afs wish list

[Derek Atkins]

John Rudd <jrudd@ucsc.edu> writes:

> >> Port Moira to use a free database and ship it. ;-)
> >
> > I thought there was already a port of Moira to Postgres.  Isn't there?
> >
> 
> We have a mid-90's version of Moira that runs on Ingres.

Yea, and MIT has ported to Oracle, but I was informed that no,
there is no Postgres equivalent.

> (the plan is that we'll probably use a directory for the central
> information repository, and then we'll have to write something that
> has the functionality of afsgen and something for generating hesiod
> zone files)

There was a prototype of a moira backend that just flushed DCM-like
changes out at every change, but I'm not sure how scalable a solution
that is if you have a large site.

-derek

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