[OpenAFS] Linux kernel 2.6 & AFS

[J. D. Nurmi]

Just for my own amusement, if you could only have a process in one PAG
space, then how would comething like:
mv /nfs/somefile /afs/mycell/newfile

work?


On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 16:46, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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