----- Original Message ----- | > | > | I guess by "all the other protocols" you must be rejecting all | > | > | the | > | > | rest | > | > | of your network traffic as "not protocols" or "not services". | > | > | > | > Okay, let me rephrase it then. | > | > | > | > In order to support file services for all of the OS platforms we | > | > support, across all the campuses we support, Kerberized NFSv4 | > | > fit | > | > the bill best. | > | | > | The comedy just never ends. | > | > Glad I can amuse you. I still find it funny that an answer hasn't | > been received as well. :) | | You don't listen well either.
I listen quite well, just recently had my hearing tested in fact, doctor said it was perfect. That said, the garbage that was spewed before did not have anything of substance prior to this post. | NFSv4 is not on our roadmap. It is a ridiculous bloated protocol | which they keep adding crap to. In about a decade the people who | actually start auditing it are going to see all the mistakes that it | hides. Great! OpenBSD will not support NFSv4. Period! This is an answer. Now the O.P. will know that NFSv4 is not going to happen, putting to rest the idea of any sort of NFSv4 services from OpenBSD. | The design process followed by the NFSv4 team members matches the | methodology taken by the IPV6 people. (As in, once a mistake is made, | and 4 people are running the test code, it is a fact on the ground and | cannot be changed again). The result is an unrefined piece of trash. Also, a much more useful answer. I look forward to seeing a multi-platform, secure file service being developed by OpenBSD developers that doesn't suck as much as IPv6 or NFSv4. It's certainly possible that your team can do it by looking at the other successful projects. Now, that said, is there anything that you could recommend instead of NFSv4 for offering secure file services to multiple platforms? My research only led me to NFSv4 and AFS, and AFS would have been a much, much larger project for us than a move to NFSv4 from NFSv3 w/Samba re-shares. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier MSN : subatomic_s...@hotmail.com
