[277] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Quiche developments for the day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue Dec 14 23:15:48 1993
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 23:14:32 EST
From: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: eichin@MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin")
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "Mark W. Eichin"'s message of Tue, 14 Dec 93 21:41:45 EST,
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 21:41:45 EST
From: eichin@MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin")
I'm surprised that you'd expect it to work. You need the kerberized
daemon that makes nfs_mapctl system calls, and you need to modify it
to perhaps talk to this daemon instead (though it may make more sense
to talk directly to the nfsd process, by whatever means ugidd is
using.) I can try and dig up those sources, but it will be work to
actually do the conversion.
It would be *really nice* to integrate the kerberized mappings into
unfsd. One of the things that this would make possible is that people
who had personal Linux boxes could make their home directory be in
NFS-land, on their Linux box. This would allow them to have a single
home directory on their Linux machine and in an Athena cluster, and in
all likelihood, they'd have a lot more space on their Linux machine than
on their 5-meg AFS space.
Of course, this may or may not be practical because of the speed of
unfsd; in which case another interesting project would be to try to cram
the NFS server code into the kernel....
- Ted
