[1601] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: linux-athena NFS locker still used?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Tue Feb 25 20:16:23 1997
To: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
Cc: mhpower@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, rtfm-maintainers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:48:19 EST."
<199702260048.TAA04766@harlie.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 20:16:13 EST
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
> > There's currently a 34 Mb linux-athena NFS locker on bloom-picayune.
> > Is this being used for anything, and is it important to keep it
> > accessible via NFS?
>
> No and no. I wasn't ever aware of its existence and all work in the
> time which I've been working on it was done in AFS.
This was from the early days of SIPB Linux-Athena before
there was AFS support for Linux. Originally, I think
it was exported from quiche before being moved to bloom.
I would guess it's only value is historical, although
you should ask Sal and Greg before removing it.
Erik
