[OpenAFS] Avoiding NTFS and FAT

[Jeffrey B. Woodward]

Derek Atkins wrote:

>ajpearce <ajpearceuk@gmail.com> writes:
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>>I thought NTFS was in play because OpenAFS wouldn't let me use a ext3
>>drive mounted using a IFS driver (ext2anywhere).
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>>"AFS's permissions model is neither that
>>of Unix nor that of Windows NTFS.  (Under certain circumstances, that makes
>>it the worst of both worlds...)"
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>>^ so I see that AFS isn't the answer to serving UNIX compatible
>>filesystems to my linux thinclient. In other words, I can't store all
>>types of unix files on an OpenAFS volume. I couldn't, for example use
>>OpenAFS to serve Linux ThinClients - re: ltsp.org ?
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>I dont understand this statement..  What exactly are you trying to
>"serve" to your thinclients?  I don't understand what you mean by
>"UNIX compatible filesystems".
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>Are you trying to serve a root filesystem?  Are you trying to serve
>the /usr filesystem?  Are you trying to server applications and/or
>homedirectory filesystems?  Any (but the first) is certainly possible
>using AFS.  But it's still very unclear what you're trying to do and
>what you mean by the buzzwords you're throwing around.
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>-derek
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Actually, for the really determined, you can even use OpenAFS for your 
root filesystem...takes a little work, but it has been done.

-Jeff