[563] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: strategy for Athena Translators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Fri Apr 29 16:08:11 1994
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 15:56:35 EDT
From: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: yandros@MIT.EDU
Cc: marc@cam.ov.com, kim@MIT.EDU, cluster-managers@MIT.EDU, sipb-staff@MIT.EDU,
tjm@MIT.EDU, op@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: yandros@MIT.EDU's message of Fri, 29 Apr 94 15:43:01 EDT,
<9404291943.AA14832@infocalypse.MIT.EDU>
If people want to experment with a user-mode translator, look in
/mit/tytso/src/unfsd. (The Linux user-mode nfs server was based on
unfsd).
I hacked unfsd to make it a user-mode AFS/NFS translator some five years
ago. (The mod times on the files are correct; I haven't touched it
since August, 1989). I gave up on it basically because at least on a
microvax, you couldn't support more than one client without performance
going completely down the tubes. And, of course, it only gave read-only
access.
So this solution doesn't scale, but if someone needs to have access to
AFS from a PC or a Macintosh, you could set up something like this on a
private workstation with AFS to support one, maybe two other clients.
Don't ask me to support this code though. I haven't looked at it in
years, and I'd prefer to keep it that way. :-)
- Ted
