>However, this HP diskless protocol has been around for 7+ years. I'm
>more than a little flabbergasted that this known to not work, and is
>not yet (and thus never will be) fixed.
It's fixed in 10.0 by getting rid of the diskless protocol!
>I'm now more than a little suspicious about what other systems will
>not work correctly.
This is the only case of this I've run into and we have at least one
of just about every OS that AFS supports.
>>What's that? "Why isn't this documented somewhere?" did you say?
>>I wish I knew...
>
>No kidding. There is not a single word about this that I can find in
>the Installation Guide. If this is really the case, that I cannot run
>AFS on the cluster machines, it is a major problem for us.
>
>It will cause my laboratory to withdraw from the campus AFS project
>entirely, and me to reccomend that we try to return our shiney new
>tapes for a refund.
We have two clusters set up to access AFS via the translator and
things are working suprisingly well. Most of the users, who are
generally AFS-unaware, don't even realize the translator is in the
path. The biggest problems are those introduced by NFS. I'd still
recommend you give it a chance.
-Mitch
