Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 17:39:16 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Importing AFS / Arla in kernel Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011124173749.64014B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20011122104225.GC1600@webcom.it>
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Andrea Campi wrote: > recently I've been working (on and off) with AFS, and in particular > trying to keep Arla working through all the changes (KSE etc), together > with assar@. Of course things would be much easier if the xfs module, > which is at the base of Arla, could be committed in the base kernel; > this way, while I'd be more than glad to act as maintainer for it and in > general handling major stuff, everybody would be able to help keep it in > good shape. Does this need a vote or something? If there are no strong > nay-sayers, I will file a PR with everything. The sources would be > imported in contrib, I already have all the module glue etc. I'm not > asking for commit access, assar would handle commits for me; having > access to both repositories, we would make sure changes will go to Arla > before, so sources will always be on vendor branch. > > I should probably mention again: this is not all of AFS, only the basic > kernel support. The rest will stay in ports, this just means better > support and easier updates. There's lots of existing precedent for this, including in the form of Coda, which uses a very similar model. Boasting out-of-the-box support for AFS also has its advantages :-). I'd be happy to do the commit-work fo this if Assar is otherwise occupied. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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