Due to the fact we have a lab of 15 Indigos we needed to integrate in our AFS environment (~18000 accounts, ~4000 AFS home directories, the rest in NFS) and they must run IRIX 4, we had to go with the AFS/NFS translator (you can stop laughing anytime). Anyhow, I have to two questions: 1. Why aren't the protection bits correctly mapped via the tranlator? For example, from /afs on the translator machine my Private directory looks like: drwx------ 12 schemers 2048 Apr 4 18:31 Private While on the NFS client much it looks like: drwxrwxrwx 12 schemers 2048 Apr 4 18:31 Private It looks like the user bits are propagated to the group and other bits. I guess this makes sense if you think about it long enough :-), but it still doesn't seem like a good idea. If you copy files from /afs to a local disk and/or nfs their protections are hosed. 2. It seems like there is a big problem with cache consistency. A grad student has been compiling and running stuff from AFS and he can reproduce problems where if he compiles a program and immediately runs it the process gets killed the first time it runs but if you wait a few seconds (5-6) it always works. Its like Its like the compiler/linker exists and the program is getting loaded into memory before the AFS cache is flushed. I've heard horror stories about AFS/NFS translator. Do these problems sound familiar??? Are there any NFS mount options that would help? How about AFS 3.3? The setup is: AFS/NFS translator SunOS 4.1.3_U1, AFS 3.2 IRIX 4.0.5H thanks, Roland -- Roland J. Schemers III | Networking Systems Systems Programmer | 414 Sweet Hall +1 (415) 723-6740 Distributed Computing Operations | Stanford, CA 94305-3090 Stanford University | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
