On Saturday, October 08, 2005 04:41:14 PM -0400 Derrick J Brashear
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On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Adam Megacz wrote:
It's always made me a bit nervous that AFS keeps the data on the
server's disk in a nonstandard format, but there must be a good reason
for this. Why doesn't the afs server just serve files out of a "plain
old directory structure" like nfsd, smbd, and the rest?
You certainly could, protocol-wise. Look in the archives for comments
about hostafsd.
Note that hostafsd was built as a proof-of-concept for this sort of thing.
It does some pretty hideous things to get something approaching reasonable
security semantics, given the assumptions people make about how access
controls work on UNIX filesystems. That's just with read-only support;
write support was never implemented, but would be even more complex. Also,
performance was very much a non-goal; for what we were planning at the
time, we didn't consider performance important even if hostafsd ever went
into production (it never did, mostly due to lack of cycles to complete the
development work).
-- Jeff (who wrote the thing)
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