Beta 2.5 kernel?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Ron Peterson <ron.peterson at yellowbank.com> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:18:01PM -0400, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone tried out the beta 2.5 kernels?  How stable are they?  What 
> > does 2.5 offer over 2.4?  Is it worth trying???
> 
> The thing I think I'm looking forward to the most is NFSv4 support,
> which I believe was just recently being rolled into the 2.5 series.
> NFSv3 is insecure.  AFS has the requisite features to be considered a
> viable secure distributed filesystem, but has never really caught on.  I
> hat to say it, but SMB, for all of its flaws, remains a legitimate
> contender.

SMB is a contender??  Why?  There is no security in it at all.

NFSv4 is probably fine for small clusters, but (last I heard) doesn't
have the volume management features of AFS.

I think AFS' only failure is lack of a reasonable marketing
department.

> How do you set up a cluster of Linux workstations to have secure access
> to a shared filesystem?  It's a bitch.

Personally, I use AFS.  :)

-derek

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