[OpenAFS] inherent reasons why other distributed filesystems don't have unified-mount/dynroot?

[Michael Norwick]

Adam Megacz wrote:

>Hey, I'm just curious... afs and coda are the only network filesystems
>I've seen with a unified namespace (/afs and /coda) as well as dynamic
>mounting ("-dynroot").
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>Is there some inherent reason why you couldn't add a feature like this
>to SMB or NFS?  Obviously AFS has plenty of other advantages over
>them, but I'm wondering if there's some crucial design decision in AFS
>I'm unaware of that is necessary in order to do this stuff.
>
>I'm toying with the idea of an AFS-to-{SMB,NFS,AppleShare,FTP,SFS}
>translator as part of my project to implement an extremely minimal afs
>client/fileserver in Java.  The idea is to make it easier to
>experiment with AFS hacks by trading off performance.
>
>  - a
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You may want to try searching the archives at nfsv4@linux-nfs.org to 
avoid duplication of effort.

Michael