[OpenAFS] MailDir & Coda/AFS was: Practical no. of files per dir was: [OpenAFS] Max number of files in volume?

[Mike Fedyk]

Jim Rees wrote:
>   BTW, why can't AFS allow hard links within a single volume?  Doesn't the 
>   client know where separate volumes are mounted in the /afs tree?
> 
> The problem is that file acls are actually attached to the file's parent
> directory, not to the file.  I'd like to see this fixed but I doubt it will
> happen in our lifetimes.

Hmm, the same file with different permissions based on directory.

I can see newbies loving that, but security people hating it.

AFS must have a static inode system that it presents to the kernel or 
else NFS from AFS would be nothing but trouble, but I've heard of that 
setup working with AFS, so there must be some infrastructure already in 
place that would support per file permissions...