[OpenAFS] Linux kernel 2.6 & AFS

[Derek Atkins]

Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> writes:

>   No. Arla, Coda and OpenAFS all use the same interfaces at least, already,
>   so it's just a question of what nfsv4 is doing, or does.
>
> NFSv4 does not yet have pags.  When it does, we'd like to use whatever
> OpenAFS uses for managing them.  It would be nice to have something cleaner
> than the current "magic grouplist" to keep track of them.
>
> It would also be nice if linux, bsd, and everyone else could agree on a
> common interface, and on common semantics.  This turns out to be kind of a
> big job, which is one reason we haven't taken a stab at this yet.

Question: is it a reasonable to want a process to be in "AFS PAG 1"
and "NFS PAG 2"?  Or is it safe to assume that all file systems
share the PAG space?

-derek
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