[OpenAFS] OpenAFS and XFS

[brettholcomb@charter.net]

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I did setup a loop mounted ext2 file system.  So far it seems to work but I'm still setting it up.

>On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:29:43PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Even easier is to use a loop-mounted ext2 filesystem.  My machines all
run ReiserFS and use loop-mounted ext2's for AFS cache.  It works fine
and is very easy to set up.
 

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