From owner-freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 22 11:21:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533AD16A469 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:21:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BCCB13C458 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:21:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D048046C68; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:21:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:21:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Palle Girgensohn In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20080122111839.O65035@fledge.watson.org> References: <20080121103924.H73025@fledge.watson.org> <680043819D80C655D73D0DEB@ganymede.hub.org> <20080122091915.Q58270@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-afs@freebsd.org, jcw@highperformance.net Subject: Re: AFS in FreeBSD ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-afs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: The Andrew File System and FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:21:41 -0000 On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > This discussion is for the *client* part only, right? > > Is the server part userland-only and hence easier to port, or is it more > complicated to get the server running on FreeBSD. The only server software > out there in decent shape is OpenAFS, I guess? Milko (arla's companion), it > seems, hasn't left alpha stage. My understanding, and I've not investigated this personally, is that the OpenAFS server works fine on FreeBSD as-is. > So for a FreeBSD only setup, arla client and OpenAFS server is the most > probable solution? It sounds like this should already work for FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x, but not yet for 7.x/8.x. The viewpoint I'm arguing is that by getting nnpfs in the base FreeBSD source tree (and I've talked with tol@arla about this in the past), we get the Arla client running more sustainably on FreeBSD such that people running the latest release have access to it, and also FreeBSD developers who run especially premature releases :-). Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge