Read carefully. I attended an NFSv4 presentation at a technical conference, and found out that some of the NFSv4 features were added specifically to compete with afs; however, the implementation is in the spec as "optional", and, in fact, none of the existing NFSv4 implementations have them.
That's one way to look at it. Another is that when you are designing a file system, or any system, it's a good idea to look at what has worked or not worked in the past, and learn from others' mistakes. NFSv4 takes inspiration from many other systems, not just afs. You are probably thinking of delegations, which allow clients to cache data without having to check back with the file server whenever they want to use the data. As far as I know none of the existing clients do any client caching of data. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
