1 ## <a name="NAMEI vs. inode based file serve"></a> NAMEI vs. inode based file server
3 There are two different flavours of the AFS file server (the fs process): One uses inodes to store AFS data (volumes, files, metadata), the other uses real files.
5 The inode-based server needs a file system which supports access by inode and usually a special fsck is required so that the AFS data is not corrupted (since the server does some behind-the-scenes stuff with the file system). The NAMEI file server does not pose any unusual constraints on the underlying filesystem - it's an ordinary userspace program working with (silly-named) files.
7 You can easily see that you are using an NAMEI file server if there are files like `V0536871833.vol` in your `/vicep*`.
9 -- [[TinoSchwarze]] - 18 Nov 2002
11 ## <a name="Recommended Partition Types for"></a><a name="Recommended Partition Types for "></a> Recommended Partition Types for use with [[OpenAFS]]
13 <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
15 <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong> namei Server </strong></th>
16 <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong> Server vicexx Partition Types </strong></th>
19 <td> Any system type </td>
20 <td> Basically any filesystem you like, as the new namei file server does not do any fancy stuff behind the scenes but only accesses normal files (their names are a bit strange though). </td>
24 <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
26 <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong> inode Server </strong></th>
27 <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong> Server vicexx Partition Types </strong></th>
30 <td> i386_linux24 </td>
31 <td><code>ext2</code>, <code>ext3</code></td>
34 <td> sun4x_5[789] </td>
35 <td><code>ufs</code> w/o logging </td>
38 <td> aix_4[345] , aix_51 </td>
39 <td><code>ufs</code></td>
43 <td><code>XFS</code></td>
46 <td> ppc_darwin_14 </td>
51 <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
53 <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong> Client </strong></th>
54 <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong> Cache (<code>/usr/vice/cache</code>)Partition Types </strong></th>
57 <td> i386_linux24 </td>
58 <td><code>ext2</code>, <code>ext3</code></td>
61 <td> sun4x_5[789] </td>
62 <td><code>ufs</code> w/o logging </td>
65 <td> aix_4[345] , aix_51 </td>
66 <td><code>ufs</code>, <code>JFS</code></td>
70 <td><code>XFS</code></td>
73 <td> ppc_darwin_14 </td>
77 <td> These Don't Work </td>
78 <td><code>reiserfs</code>, <code>vxfs</code> (HP-UX) </td>
82 -- [[ToddLewis]] - 06 Nov 2002