Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 12/23/2009 08:45:25 PM:
> Patrick Spinler <[email protected]> > Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> > > 12/23/2009 08:45 PM > > Please respond to > Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> > > To > > [email protected] > > cc > > Subject > > Re: How to set up a common USER home directory across multiple zLinux Guests > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Shane Ginnane wrote: > > Wasn't this what {Open}AFS was designed for ?. > > Note that AFS requires kerberos. It's not a bad place to be at, but is > a complex pre-requisite. > > Also AFS has different file permission semantics's than the 'normal' > unix model. Specifically an AFS acl applies to a directory and all > files it contains, but never to an individual file. This makes dirs > that need a mix of private and public files (e.g. $HOME/.xauthority, > $HOME/.ssh/*_key) tricky to implement. > > I'd really like a system with AFS's namespaces, kerberos authentication, > server redundancy, and client caching, but NFSv4's more unix like > permisions model + ACL's. > > - -- Pat > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAksyx7UACgkQNObCqA8uBsyBmQCcD0D9Fw2GPhvkLBWwu7skCbuF > n4UAn0AV+ZDhceDl2+F/QYvMWxaHfDdy > =zdRr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 Pat, You'll probably find appendix B of this Redbook interesting: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg246657.html A lot of the development groups inside IBM have slowly been migrating from AFS to GSA for the last 5 years. GSA has most of the things in your wish list. Regards, Ray Higgs System z FCP Development Bld. 706, B24 2455 South Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 435-8666, T/L 295-8666 [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
