Re: [PATCH] AFS filesystem for Linux (2/2)

Troy Benjegerdes
2002-10-06T16:17:47Z

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:05:39AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, David Howells wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch adds an Andrew File System (AFS) driver to the
> > > kernel. Currently it only provides read-only, uncached, non-automounted
> > > and unsecured support.
> >
> > Are you sure this is the right way to go?
>
> I think so. I think it makes sense for the AFS VFS-interface to go as directly
> as possible to the network without having to make context switches to get into
> userspace.

Hrrm, well, I'm in the middle of deploying AFS (moving away from NFS), and
one of the ideas I toyed with was how to get a diskless AFS client. (yeah,
that sounds silly at first, 2GB disks used to be large, not systems with
2GB of ram are common.) A mostly kernel-based implementation of AFS would
be quite usefull for this. (and the remaining bits could be in an
initramfs)

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