Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:51:36 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu, freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG, port-freebsd@openafs.org Subject: Re: afs port Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010330144416.40815C-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <p05100900b6e9814d949f@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > On Feb 8/2001, George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu wrote: > >Has the openAFS from IBM been ported to FreeBSD yet? > > Did anyone reply to this yet? > > There is a mailing list at the openafs site for the freebsd port, but > there hasn't been a lot of activity on it. I know someone was looking > over the openafs code for freebsd, but I don't know what the current > status is. Last I heard, Tom Maher had a large (130kb+) patch to get the userland code working. However, that doesn't address the issue of the kernel module, or whether the patch was complete (unlikely given the scale of the task). With regards to the kernel module, the best starting point is probably to select the platform with the closest VFS layer to FreeBSD's, and work from there. In my view, the highest priority is really getting the server-side working, given that Arla provides a quite workable AFS client on FreeBSD already, and is well-maintained. Unfortunately, I have plenty on my plate already so am unlikely to make any forward progress in active development. Given semi-working code, I'd be glad to help debug it and attempt to track nasty kernel bugs, of which I am sure there will be plenty :-). 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-afs" in the body of the message
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