Anthony Wright wrote: > I've been interested in using OpenAFS as an alternative to NFS for a > while now, and most of the arguments in it's favour seem fairly > compelling, but i'm struggling with one issue. > > I'm in the process of building a system which will use a FUSE File > System which I then want to publish over a network. I can clearly > understand how to do this with NFS, but from my (limited) knowledge, > OpenAFS seems to be much more tightly bound to the underlying file > system than NFS, and I can't see how I produce a FUSE file system, and > then access that file system through an OpenAFS client. > > Is this something that can be done under OpenAFS and if so how? If not > is there an OpenAFS API similar in concept to FUSE that would allow a > user mode program to publish a file system over OpenAFS? > > If the answer to these two questions is no, does this mean I've found > out a way in which NFS is better than OpenAFS? ;-)
AFS does not publish the contents of the local file system. At least not yet. AFS stores its data within portable volumes that can be migrated between file servers and replicated to multiple file servers. The file servers do not have to use the same OS nor use the same underlying file system type. There is on-going Work on a project called hostafsd which will permit the contents of a local file system to be served using AFS3 protocol. This work is not complete. Jeffrey Altman Secure Endpoints Inc.
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