Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:17:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:17:01 -0400 Received: from altus.drgw.net ([209.234.73.40]:45579 "EHLO altus.drgw.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:16:35 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:49:46 -0500 From: Troy Benjegerdes To: David Howells Cc: Linus Torvalds , David Howells , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] AFS filesystem for Linux (2/2) Message-ID: <20021006164946.GD878@altus.drgw.net> References:

<13691.1033635939@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <13691.1033635939@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1508 Lines: 33 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) -- Troy Benjegerdes | master of mispeeling | 'da hozer' | hozer@drgw.net -----"If this message isn't misspelled, I didn't write it" -- Me ----- "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Schulz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/