Re: [9fans] How to implement a moral equivalent of automounter

[Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu>]

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On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:58:15PM +0000, Steve Simon wrote:
> > AFS has its warts, but, trust me, if you've used it for a while,
> > you will not find yourself excitedly perusing the volume location
> > database to see where your bits are coming from.  
> 
> Is there an AFS client for plan9 anywhere?

AFAIK no.  There's a long list of things that would have to happen before
this was feasable, not the least of which is to get factotum speaking
Kerberos (V5, and the 5to4 wedge... sigh).  It might be possible to bring
the RxRPC libraries over without too much pain.  And that's just getting
started.

You can sort of, ish, emulate AFS on Plan 9 by having a UNIX box running an
AFS client and your Kerberos credentials and then importing /afs via SSH.
Crude hack, but works.

It might be an interesting project for some student(s) to reimplement
Kerberos 5 for Plan 9... it's something of an open question of just how
minimal and tasteful the implementation can be when it's not MIT code. ;)

--nwf;

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