I can answer a couple of these questions, so here goes. Then again, I'm
only telling you what I understand of all this, which might not be
accurate, so take it with a grain of salt.
Excerpts from transarc.external.info-afs: 18-Oct-96 Re: afs to nis
conversion Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2154)
> One of the key goodies of AFS (and DFS) is callbacks - to ensure cache
> consistency. Does the cache filesystem of solaris contain a similar
> mechanism?
No. Think of CacheFS as an extension of the VM system. It makes an NFS
cache bigger, but it doesn't change the NFS ``cache consistency'' rules,
with its timer-based consistency.
> Do Solaris style acl's work in NFS?
I think that they might in NFS V3 but not before, or something like
that. Presumably if you put an ACL on a file at the server, the server
will honor it correctly (well, assuming that your authentication flavor
is giving you the ``correct''ness you desire), but an NFS V2 client will
look only at the cached stat() information (mode bits, owner, group) to
decide whether an operation should be allowed. So there could be
anomalies in what the client allows locally vs. what the server actually
permits. This is just the sort of issue that NFS clients of the AFS/NFS
translator or the NFS/DFS gateway will be used to.
Sorry, I can't speak to the other questions.
Craig
