On Sep 19, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Niklas Edmundsson wrote:
We see two roads to investigate:
Either do an implementation that uses an existing filesystem like the
current NAMEI fileserver, or implement an AFS-server-specific file
system.
What came to mind (kind of instantaneous) was the idea Jeffrey
Hutzelman had quite a while ago,
implementing a fileserver which 'exports' (just like NFS) some
directories. This has it's drawbacks:
- you can only have one partition
- maybe only one volume
- you can't do a vos move to or from that fileserver (or maybe
not ... if you think of something ;-) )
Just a quick idea ...
Designing/implementing a new filesystem is a lot of work, and has a
lot
of "reinventing the wheel"-feeling to it. You need good arguments to
follow this path, and it would be preferable if there is existing
work to
leverage this upon. Licensing becomes an issue here.
Obviously, we welcome all kinds of input on this.
Also, any pointer to documentation, previous work etc. regarding
the AFS
fileserver is welcome. We're not that clued on what subtle features
there might be that the fileserver needs to support.
Nikke, you know where to find the documentation for AFS, don't you?
Horst
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