On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 22:22 -0400, Phillip Moore wrote:
> OK, GSSAPI-ized, but that doesn't pronounce very well....
> 
GSSAPI'nated! :) 

guh-sap-in-ated

> Since we don't have anyone banging on our door wanting to bootstrap
> anything (I haven't heard from ANY of our early adopters in many
> weeks), I am debating what to do next.  NFSv4 is very, very tempting
> since I've read a lot about it in the last week or so, and it looks
> relatively straight forward.   We also need to think about backporting
> the GSSAPI support into EFS 2, as well (which really won't be that
> hard; to code OR to deploy).

Hold off on planning anything just yet (at least until after tomorrow's
team meeting), there's some "stuff" coming at us, which may deplete our
resources just a bit, but they do eventually converge at NFSv4. 

> Regardless of where we go next, we can now say with confidence that
> EFS has very robust and secure authentication.  If we start using
> NFSv4, we'll be able to say that about the underlying filesystem,
> too. 

That's a huge milestone. Now let's see if we can't get people playing
with things like ZFS and AFS under the hood, and make the underlying fs
"pluggable". 




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