[OpenAFS] OpenAFS and XFS

[Derek Atkins]

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<brettholcomb@charter.net> writes:

> Okay, that lets OpenAFS out for me then.

I don't see what's so hard about creating an ext2/3 partition for your
afs cache.  You should have a dedicated cache partition anyways.
Worst case you could use the -memcache option to afsd and skip the
persistent disk cache.

> Why the requirement for ext2/3 for cache?  Why not use whatever file
> system is there?

Because it needs direct access to the inodes via iget(); this works
for ext2/3, it does not work for reiserfs (or xfs, I believe) because
they (well, reiser for sure) breaks the user-space inode abstraction.

> Thank you.

-derek

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