Don't AFS and Coda Volume Servers (I think that's what they're called) just NFS mount their storage over a [hopefully secure] LAN?
No. Well, not AFS, I don't know about Coda. AFS uses its own file system in local partitions. DFS does have the ability to export non- native file systems, such as UFS or CD ROM, though I'm not sure if it will export something which isn't local.
If you mean, will NetApp ever get together with Transarc and get certified or whatever Transarc calls it when they bless a vendor, the answer is "mumble."
Since AFS doesn't work with non-native file systems, this is identical to the following:
If you mean, will NetApp filers ever pretend to be Volume Servers, and natively speak the AFS protocol, the answer is "probably not."
We've talked about it at various times. Transarc didn't want to play (since IBM bought them, the file system stuff has been short-changed) and when pressed, came up with a proposal that exceeded our annual engineering budget. Tied with a tiny and dwindling market, I think "probably not" is being optimistic.
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