[OpenAFS] Publishing a FUSE file system over OpenAFS
Derrick Brashear
shadow@gmail.com
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:14:27 -0400
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You want hostafsd. More work is forthcoming on it. Of course, publishing a
FUSE filesystem, why bother? You don't need to involve the kernel VFS (the
part that FUSE does) because... you're publishing it via the network to AFS
clients anyway.
On 10/17/07, Anthony Wright <anthony@communitymesh.com> wrote:
>
> I had a look at the thread, but unless I'm mistaken it's talking about
> using FUSE to publish an AFS filesystem, rather than using AFS to
> publish a FUSE filesystem.
>
> Giovanni Bracco wrote:
> > Have you see the thread of the previous posting to
> openafs-info@openafs.org?
> > http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2007-January/024971.html
> > Giovanni
> > On Sunday 14 October 2007 23:54, Anthony Wright wrote:
> >
> >> I've been interested in using OpenAFS as an alternative to NFS for a
> >> while now, and most of the arguments in it's favour seem fairly
> >> compelling, but i'm struggling with one issue.
> >>
> >> I'm in the process of building a system which will use a FUSE File
> >> System which I then want to publish over a network. I can clearly
> >> understand how to do this with NFS, but from my (limited) knowledge,
> >> OpenAFS seems to be much more tightly bound to the underlying file
> >> system than NFS, and I can't see how I produce a FUSE file system, and
> >> then access that file system through an OpenAFS client.
> >>
> >> Is this something that can be done under OpenAFS and if so how? If not
> >> is there an OpenAFS API similar in concept to FUSE that would allow a
> >> user mode program to publish a file system over OpenAFS?
> >>
> >> If the answer to these two questions is no, does this mean I've found
> >> out a way in which NFS is better than OpenAFS? ;-)
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >>
> >> Tony Wright.
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> OpenAFS-info mailing list
> >> OpenAFS-info@openafs.org
> >> https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
> >>
> >
> >
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You want hostafsd. More work is forthcoming on it. Of course, publishing a FUSE filesystem, why bother? You don't need to involve the kernel VFS (the part that FUSE does) because... you're publishing it via the network to AFS clients anyway.
<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anthony Wright</b> <<a href="mailto:anthony@communitymesh.com">anthony@communitymesh.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I had a look at the thread, but unless I'm mistaken it's talking about<br>using FUSE to publish an AFS filesystem, rather than using AFS to<br>publish a FUSE filesystem.<br><br>Giovanni Bracco wrote:<br>> Have you see the thread of the previous posting to
<a href="mailto:openafs-info@openafs.org">openafs-info@openafs.org</a>?<br>> <a href="http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2007-January/024971.html">http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2007-January/024971.html
</a><br>> Giovanni<br>> On Sunday 14 October 2007 23:54, Anthony Wright wrote:<br>><br>>> I've been interested in using OpenAFS as an alternative to NFS for a<br>>> while now, and most of the arguments in it's favour seem fairly
<br>>> compelling, but i'm struggling with one issue.<br>>><br>>> I'm in the process of building a system which will use a FUSE File<br>>> System which I then want to publish over a network. I can clearly
<br>>> understand how to do this with NFS, but from my (limited) knowledge,<br>>> OpenAFS seems to be much more tightly bound to the underlying file<br>>> system than NFS, and I can't see how I produce a FUSE file system, and
<br>>> then access that file system through an OpenAFS client.<br>>><br>>> Is this something that can be done under OpenAFS and if so how? If not<br>>> is there an OpenAFS API similar in concept to FUSE that would allow a
<br>>> user mode program to publish a file system over OpenAFS?<br>>><br>>> If the answer to these two questions is no, does this mean I've found<br>>> out a way in which NFS is better than OpenAFS? ;-)
<br>>><br>>> Many thanks,<br>>><br>>> Tony Wright.<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> OpenAFS-info mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:OpenAFS-info@openafs.org">
OpenAFS-info@openafs.org</a><br>>> <a href="https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info">https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info</a><br>>><br>><br>><br><br>_______________________________________________
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