[OpenAFS] Publishing a FUSE file system over OpenAFS

[Anthony Wright]

I realise that using FUSE would add a whole layer of inefficiency but 
it's a clean, well defined API to write to. My other thought was whether 
the OpenAFS server includes an API which is similar in concept to FUSE 
which I could use to publish my filesystem directly to OpenAFS, avoiding 
FUSE & kernel VFS altogether. It would mean that I could publish the 
file system over OpenAFS, but not over other networked file systems, for 
example Samba. However, if the API wasn't too complex, I couldn't see 
that being a big problem as I could publish to both APIs if I needed. 
Does OpenAFS have such an API?

Derrick Brashear wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto:openafs-info@openafs.org>?
>     >
>     http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2007-January/024971.html
>     <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.
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