RE: OpenAFS (was: Re: [Devel] LVM partitioning configuration?)

["Sven Tore Iversen" <mailme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: devel-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:devel-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Maximilian Wilhelm
> Am Wed, den 11 Jun hub Sven Tore Iversen folgendes in die Tasten:
> 
> [...]
> > ..now I only wish for ACL integration (to better emulate 
> Win NT user 
> > right
> > management)
> 
> What do you think about OpenAFS?

I have no experience with it.

> 
> It has *many* beautiful features:
> * It's a network fs
> * there exist clients for almost every operation system
> * it can handle ACLs
> * it can handle quotas
> * you can build up a SAN-like environment with almost as many
>   fileservers, as you want
> * you can migrate data between the servers / make backups, while
>   the system is running and no user will recognize it.
> 
> AND:
> * No one need NFS anymore. :)
> * Samba would only be needed for printing and browsing (WINS).
> 
> What do you think about this?

If your asking me, it sounds very good. It's very tempting to look more into
it, at least for integrating in one of my systems (Not Skolelinux).
I'm really to wrong guy to ask though, since I don't know why SL chose NFS
at the time, and how much work it would be to integrate OpenAFS. 

Sven Tore