[2318] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
HP dataless - AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael (m.d.) shubaly)
Thu Feb 3 16:16:25 1994
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 09:26:00 +0000
From: "michael (m.d.) shubaly" <shub@bnr.ca>
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
I have heard of it being done, most likely at one of the University
cells.
I am interested in talking with a System Admin that uses AFS to
store the HPUX operating system so that the workstations in the
cell run dataless.
We currently run in a HP-Duxs environment and are looking at
trialing AFS. However Duxs at the client level does not work
with AFS (crash and burn). We have too many nodes to go standalone
without introducing Kaos into the System admin function. I don't
think running the AFS/NFS translator is the answer because you
lose most of the functionality that going to AFS provides (disk
caching, security, speed).
When I was on my sys admin course at Transarc I heard that some groups
somewhere has the following configuration:
HP workstation has enough boot files so AFS can be mounted then
the rest of the operating system is symbolically linked into
AFS when the /AFS mount is satisfied.
I would be very interested in hearing from someone with this config.
Michael Shubaly
Distributed Computing Archtecture
Bell Northern Research Ltd
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
shub@bnr.ca
