[OpenAFS] Using FUSE for OpenAFS?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:03:17 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Jason Edgecombe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just saw an article on Slashdot that FUSE was ported to Mac OSX
>
> In one of the comments, some guy said he was trying to port FUSE to windows.
> http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=217284&cid=17643614
>
>
> FUSE - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
>
> I just wanted to ask if FUSE might be a worthwhile direction or option for 
> OpenAFS?
>
> I know this would mean a lot of rewriting stuff and I'm not advocating 
> throwing away code, but might this be a usable API or library to emulate on 
> Windows or other OS's?

AFS with FUSE has been done, basically. It's Arla.

Derrick