I realise that using FUSE would add a whole layer of inefficiency but
it's a clean, well defined API to write to. My other thought was whether
the OpenAFS server includes an API which is similar in concept to FUSE
which I could use to publish my filesystem directly to OpenAFS, avoiding
FUSE & kernel VFS altogether. It would mean that I could publish the
file system over OpenAFS, but not over other networked file systems, for
example Samba. However, if the API wasn't too complex, I couldn't see
that being a big problem as I could publish to both APIs if I needed.
Does OpenAFS have such an API?
Derrick Brashear wrote:
You want hostafsd. More work is forthcoming on it. Of course,
publishing a FUSE filesystem, why bother? You don't need to involve
the kernel VFS (the part that FUSE does) because... you're publishing
it via the network to AFS clients anyway.
On 10/17/07, *Anthony Wright* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I had a look at the thread, but unless I'm mistaken it's talking about
using FUSE to publish an AFS filesystem, rather than using AFS to
publish a FUSE filesystem.
Giovanni Bracco wrote:
> Have you see the thread of the previous posting to
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>?
>
http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2007-January/024971.html
<http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2007-January/024971.html>
> Giovanni
> On Sunday 14 October 2007 23:54, 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? ;-)
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Tony Wright.
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