Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:30:33 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it> 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: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020312112733.4664E-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20020312091712.GB8071@webcom.it>
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Andrea Campi wrote: > The server is still a problem, yes. Garance, don't you know of any > anonymously accessible systems? I'm sure there are a few but don't think > I wrote them down anywhere. :( That would save us quite a bit of time; > it's something an experienced admin could set up in an afternoon with > appropriate hardware at hand, but it would take you a couple of days > starting from scratch, just to figure out all the messy documentation. > Again, if you decided to just do that I could help. 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. > > There is a web site for openafs, at www.openafs.org. That > > has downloadable client installations forMacOS 10, some > > versions of Windows, Linux, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, and > > Tru64 Unix. That web site does not have a client for the > > Net,Open, or FreeBSD's. Most of the BSD's probably go with > > the ARLA port for their AFS client. > > I never got OpenAFS working on -current but I heard someone is working > on that. Note also that the kernel module is designed to be sort-of > compatible between different implementation, so that you could use it > witk either the OpenAFS or arla client. 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. > > Unfortunately, I noticed that someone else just mentioned > > that the ARLA port is broken on current -- and here I just > > switched to running current. Sigh... > > Yes, that's me. I think we should take this offline until we have > something interesting to add ;-) 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. 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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