On 9/27/05, Chris Crowther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > > > functionally the same thing if I use LVM and Automount, except I > > wouldn't have the filesystem authentication. Is there another aspect > > of OpenAFS that I'm missing causing me to make this observation? > > Other than LVM is only for local filesystems and AFS is a network > based > filesystem? >
Hmm... I guess each LVM volume would have to be mounted locally before it can be exported for NFS. Plus, there may be a limit on how many LVM volumes you can have. I guess OpenAFS essentially wraps all of the things that you would have to otherwise do manually. > > Also, I'm not at the point where I can sniff the traffic yet, but is > > the network traffic encrypted? Thanks for any insights. > > If you choose for it to be, it is. > And how do I verify that I've chosen it to be? -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
