Excerpts from mail: 11-Feb-94 Re: PC Interconnection usin.. peter
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> i don't see what havoc reigns dues to semantic differences. to me, the
> afs-to-nfs intermediate server looks like nfs.
What if you've switched over to being an AFS shop, and your users are
used to cache coherency and access control lists?
We're now an AFS shop.
We don't just think of the world in terms of the limited NFS semantics,
we like AFS semantics, and we miss them on our micros. We anticipate
problems having one large group of users sharing files assuming AFS
semantics with another large group of users sharing the SAME files
assuming NFS semantics.
What should a microcomputer user do when her volume is getting moved?
There is no "Waiting for busy volume" semantics in NFS. Yes, we can
educate them to consider the "Stale NFS File Handle" error they will get
as a non-fatal error, and incorporate some ritual to get beyond it.
BUT WE DON'T WANT TO.
-wdc
