What linux lacks most - a decent remote fs

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 02:24:02 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>  > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
>  > <mjc at avtechpulse.com> wrote:
>  >> Neal Becker wrote:
>  >>
>  >>  > I understand that nfsv4 was supposed to fix that.  Looking at the docs
>  >>  > I could find, it appears I'll never live long enough to understand how
>  >>  > to set that up, and I haven't yet found the idiot's guide to setting
>  >>  > up nfsv4 with authentication.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > For now I'm using cifs.  That's pretty sad.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > I've glanced at afs, but there's no Fedora package.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  Mmm... I dream of an easy-to-use remote fs with automagical local
>  >>  caching...
>  >>
>  >>
>  >
>  > OpenAFS
>  >
>  > http://www.openafs.org
>  >
>  > Does all this. Works great. Super stable. Server and client software
>  > for many platforms.
>  >
>  > pj
>  >
>  >
>  Is there an afs for fedora?
>
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I took a look at the download links and it appears it would support a
yum repo as I saw files like repodata.xml etc. but I didn't see any
link for instructions on how to set it up. I think I could hack one up
to work but I thought it strange to have the data there but no obvious
setup info.

Richard




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