[Beowulf] network filesystem

Chris Samuel csamuel at vpac.org
Mon Mar 5 19:46:51 PST 2007


On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, John Hearns wrote:

> Purely as a point of interest, since high energy physics labs use AFS
> (and hence kerberos) they have already faced this one.

Interesting, though it's not clear from that whether it can cope with, say, 
automatically renewing expiring tickets for running jobs where the job 
lifetime is longer than the maximum allowed lifetime of a Kerberos ticket.

NB: I've never used Kerberos in anger, so be gentle. :-)

cheers,
Chris
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