[OpenAFS] Re: why afs backup is so poorly supported

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Monday, October 09, 2006 11:20:09 PM -0400 Derrick J Brashear 
<shadow@dementia.org> wrote:

> The AFS fileserver wasn't designed to solve this. The AFS protocol and
> client certainly could be used to solve it.

You're correct, of course.  You _could_ solve the 
share-the-local-filesystem problem using the AFS protocol and client.  I've 
even written a fileserver that does this, to a limited extent.  But doing 
it correctly and efficiently will require help from the kernel and the 
filesystems you want to export, just as it does for NFS.  It will also 
require a nontrivial investment of time.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA