[650] in SIPB_Linux_Development
srvd-like-thing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Haynes)
Fri Jul 22 19:53:52 1994
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 16:53:21 -0700
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
You might want to do it in NFS rather than in AFS. One reason is the
bootstrapping process; somebody gets an off-the-shelf installable Linux
or BSD, so it has NFS only, and then they can NFS mount the srvd to pull
down your stuff, which might include the AFS kernel. Another reason is
you probably can't pass out the AFS source to everybody, so for people
to make kernels tailored to their hardware they'll have to make kernels
and link in the AFS object files. So NFS becomes a sort of minimal common
protocol that everybody can talk, and you build up from there. Otherwise
people will have to come to you to get AFS-capable boot floppies to get
started with.
