[72] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Is it possible to create a cell without a full AFS server?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Feb 8 21:58:18 1991
To: info-afs@transarc.com
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 91 21:24:37 EST
From: "Manavendra K. Thakur" <thakur@zerkalo.harvard.edu>
Don't laugh! I'm serious here....
What I'm trying to do is install AFS 3.1 client binaries on machines
at my site that are currently running SunOS 4.1.1.
However, I've been advised by the friendly folks at Transarc that I
should NOT try to install the AFS 3.1 server binaries on SunOS 4.1.1
machines, since there is some inode structure clash between AFS 3.1
server code and the SunOS 4.1.1 file system. The AFS 3.1 client code,
though, is supposed to work ok under SunOS 4.1.1.
Unfortunately, all the machines that could possibly be configured as
an AFS server at our site are already running SunOS 4.1.1.
Hence my question: is it at all possible to enable our machines act as
AFS clients without necessarily having a full AFS server in our cell
to interact with?
I realize that AFS clients need access to an authentication server, a
volume location server, and a protection server -- i.e., a Database
Server Machine as defined in section 1.4.4 of the AFS 3.0 System
Administrators Manual.
So I guess my question specifically boils down to this: Are the
processes that make up a Database Server Machine dependent on the
inode structure of the native operating system? If not, is it
possible to configure an AFS server to be a database server machine
without also being a Simple File Server Machine (to continue using the
terminology of the SysAdmin Manual)?
Finally, if it is indeed possible to set up a limited server in this
way, how in the world would you do it?
Thanks to anyone who can provide some advice on this screwy issue!
(And a thousand curses on Sun for first changing the inode structure
in SunOS 4.1.1 and then not providing Transarc with source code
promptly so that Transarc can work around this silliness. Grrrr...)
Manavendra K. Thakur Internet: thakur@zerkalo.harvard.edu
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