Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:28:00 +0100 From: Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t Message-ID: <20020312152800.GB309@webcom.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020312112733.4664E-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <20020312091712.GB8071@webcom.it> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020312112733.4664E-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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> My impression was that many .edu cells are anonymously accessible to at
> least some extent, or some of the boot-strapping tricks wouldn't work. I
> could be wrong, however.
No bootstrap issues, or at least I had none: you don't even need to have
connectivity to set up arla, the distro is self contained.
> I've recently been exchanging e-mail with developers at CMU regarding the
> OpenAFS code, so there's certainly activity in that space. Also, OpenAFS
> was ported to Darwin and OS X. Although AFS isn't a big part of the
> FreeBSD community, there seems to be a lot of interest in FreeBSD on the
> AFS side of the world.
arla is available for OS X, including a "preferences" panel. I wasn't able
to check it out yet, as my Mac is at home waiting for my ADSL...
> Unfortunately, I largely live in a network environment where I can't hook
> up AFS easily due to a proxy-model firewall, or I'd be interested in
> helping out. If the OpenAFS people make the server run happily and easily
> on FreeBSD, I can provide some help with the Arla client given enough time
> to set up a simply server. However, what we really need are maintainers
> who use AFS daily to make this work -- it's a complex system that will
> require extensive testing and careful tracking.
As I said, you could test it even on a disconnected net. However, you can't
currently run a server on FreeBSD.
I would volunteer to be the maintainer, but AFS was just a pilot project
here and we no longer have a server. If the server becomes available for
OS X, I'll be able to run my own server at home, but until that time, it
can't be me.
I agree that we need somebody who uses it daily to work as maintainer, or
at least tester. But we should probably commit the code nonetheless, or
it will be a chicken-and-egg problem forever.
Bye,
Andrea
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