Dan Bethe wrote:
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Brian Pawlowski wrote:
As in grandson of AFS, disconnected operation?
I'm curious, who is supporting it now?
http://www.coda.cs.cmu.eduYeah, that's the one. Virtually every recent OS I can think ofoffhand supports it. I would think that while Netapp is busy working on such awesome filers, they'd also like to support a network filesystem that uhhh.....isn't NFS ;)
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? If that's the case, NetApp filers should work fine with AFS and Coda right now.
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." The prospect of a nice order from a couple large AFS shops would do a lot to motivate us to actually test and certify the configuration, I believe, though I'm not the person who makes decisions about things like that.
If you mean, will NetApp filers ever pretend to be Volume Servers, and natively speak the AFS protocol, the answer is "probably not."
Alan
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