Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:27:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a new beginning Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990429071718.8896D-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <199904290437.AAA12331@cs.rpi.edu>
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On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, David E. Cross wrote: > Well, the port of AFS 3.4 to FreeBSD was pretty much a complete failure. > I had attempted to restart it later from scratch, but gave up when I > found 3.5 was just arround the corner and was going to be a large re-org > of everything. 3.5 is here, and I am going to start again. I will be > asking many bone-headed questions about AFS itself and the VFS/VM > interface to FreeBSD. please bear with me, I know very little about > this. I am eager to learn though :) Given the availability of Arla, is there a reason we still want to port the Transarc AFS client? Wouldn't it be more productive to get really bored and write a BSD-licensed AFS server for FreeBSD, making FreeBSD the ultimate free network server platform? :) This wouldn't necessarily involve learning FreeBSD VM/VFS because you don't have to do the Transarc direct inode-open thing, and if you really wanted to the Arla module could easily be made to do that. They already have the initial framework for a server (all the backend RPC call names and some setup and examples). If there is interest in writing a free AFS server, I may have a month of time I could devote to it this summer. My suspicion is that this would be an incredibly worthwhile project, given the availability of a free client already. No doubt the KTH folk are interested in doing this already, but last I spoke to them (Assar was here in Pittsburgh about a month ago) they hadn't started yet. We already have Quorum code that was originally intended for Coda, but hasn't gone in there yet (BSD-licensed), and there are some folk around here who have various components that could go into it, hopefully all also liberally licensed. Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-afs" in the body of the message
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