[562] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: strategy for Athena Translators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Fri Apr 29 15:45:05 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 15:43:01 EDT
To: marc@cam.ov.com
Cc: kim@MIT.EDU, cluster-managers@MIT.EDU, sipb-staff.tjm@MIT.EDU, op@MIT.EDU,
linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9404291650.AA19382@dun-dun-noodles.aktis.com> (message from Marc Horowitz on Fri, 29 Apr 1994 12:50:11 -0400)
[ note addition of linux-dev to CC's]
I just had an idea. Linux has a user-mode nfs server, which is
supposedly fairly portable. If DCNS ran this on an afs client (Linux
or not), this would be a fairly easy way to provide at least
unauthentic read-only AFS access for PC, Mac, and weirdo-UNIX
consumption.
I tried running this on my machine (inf), but there were
inomcpatibilities between solaris rcpgen and linux rpcgen that I ran
into, and I don't know much about rpcgen (at least, that's what I
thought was happening. details upon request). Greg Hudson was
supposedly going to try setting it up on maze (decmips 5k/25) at some
point, but I don't know if anyone's ever seriously tried.
Keep also in mind a few practical facts about linux's user-mode NFSd -
it's *slow*, it's flaky, it dies a lot, and it's not reliable. Aside
from that, it's great. :-) (actually, the beta version that I tried
(and that was a while ago) was supposedly a lot better.)
chad
