You might take a look at https://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/95dec/dec95a3.pdf. That's for DCE/DFS, not AFS, but it discusses how global namespace management was done in the DCE/DFS context.
DNS also has AFSDB records, and you could look to find the RFC(s) that covered those (e.g., RFC 5395) However, I do not know that they were/are widely-used. Steven On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 2:53 AM Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > A bit off topic, but as NFSv4 is implementing cross-server referrals, the > prospect of having a central server that just makes referrals to other > (data-hosting) servers as a sort of global file system namespace has come > up, and I offered to find a reference to use for discussion of the prior > work. For context, that reference would be used from > > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-rfc5661sesqui-msns-02#section-11.5.6 > . I did find > > https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~satya/docdir/spasojevic-tocs-afs-measurement-1996.pdf > which has some discussion of this topic in the scope of a broader > retrospective on the wide-area filesystem, but I was wondering if anyone > knew of a more-focused reference for the global nature of the namespace. > > Thanks, > > Ben > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info >
