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Date:      Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:51:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
To:        John Robert LoVerso <john@loverso.southborough.ma.us>
Cc:        freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new AFS list 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971207164840.25016E-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199712072144.QAA26338@loverso.southborough.ma.us>

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On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, John Robert LoVerso wrote:

> I doubt you'll get permission to distribute the sources to anyone without
> an AFS source license.  You might be able to distribute binaries, although
> I'm almost certain they didn't even give that permission to the Linux port.
No, just the binaries... The linux people did get that permission... the
Linux port is distributed through transarc (unofficially)
> 
> Either way, an AFS port is still useful.  There are many organizations
> that have AFS source licenses that would like to have it work on FreeBSD.
> 
> I'll also note that the cache manager bug I'm talking about was most clearly
> with FreeBSD's VM (and or the port of AFS to it).  The same AFS 3.3 sources
> run on Linux and NetBSD without problems.  We've used similar 3.3 sources
> on OSF/1 systems (for x86 here at OSF, not to be confused with what is now
> Digital UNIX) for years.
never though I would here AFS and 'run without problems' mentioned in the
same sentence ;)

Ok... just checking, becuase we used to have cache corruption probelms all
the time here (especially on our Sun machines)

--
David Cross
ACS Consultant




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