Subject: Re: ACL's revisited
To: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/27/2001 16:40:23
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> Um, a side topic: what would it take to get an {,Open}AFS server running on
> NetBSD?
>
> I think I remember someone once saying that AFS stores data in extra
> fields in the inode, but NetBSD doesn't have enough spare fields. Could
> we use the "associated data" model (or the one-large-file-indexed-by-inode
> model) to hold this AFS server data?
Just add a side flat file which contains those extra fields. You can make
access real fast. It's what I did for nasfs, and it was quite simple.
Take care,
Bill