> I don't think so. AFS stores special files in the file system. I
> don't know if it would work with a Samba or NFS-mounted filesystem.
> I don't think anyone has actually tested that. What you would need
> to do is something like:
>
> mount NetApp onto Linux:/vicepX
> start AFS Server on Linux
>
> This may or may not actually work. YMMV.
Even if you could make that work, you'd never be able to guarantee the
semantics -- you'd have cache coherence failures all over the place.
> Ideally, we would want to
> build an AFS server for NetApp. Or perhaps re-install the NetApps
> with another OS.
Don't get his hopes up. It ain't happening. (1) NetApp have their own
proprietary on-disk filesystem format, which anybody wanting to use their
disks would have to reverse-engineer and then implement -- and that's even
assuming that you could port your own OS to the box because (b) they scarcely
run any OS there at all anyway, so a port of AFS would be highly non-trivial.
Thomas, I'm sorry to say this, but I don't think this is a good idea at the
moment.
Out of curiosity, what is wrong with the existing NetApp solution? I suppose
this is off-topic, so you may as well respond to me privately. Thanks.
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