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Date:      Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:39:43 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
To:        "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...
Message-ID:  <17246.38927.551094.180428@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <0d9d01c5d7ea$4a9ab860$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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<<On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:56:07 -0400, "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> said:

> OpenAFS has a partial port to FreeBSD; there have been a few folks who have
> been dilligently working on this over the past couple of years.

> From http://www.openafs.org/projects.html, it appears that all the *BSDs
> have some degree of support but with missing pieces.

The OpenAFS kernel code is an incredible festering pile of
excr^H^H^H^H#ifdefs.  I had much better luck getting Arla to work
properly; it doesn't try to do so much in the kernel.  So I stopped
working on OpenAFS.  I think Jim Rees still keeps a hand in....

-GAWollman




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