From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 7 23:48:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA25596 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 23:48:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from usr03.primenet.com (tlambert@usr03.primenet.com [206.165.6.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA25587 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 23:48:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr03.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA18460; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 23:48:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710080648.XAA18460@usr03.primenet.com> Subject: Re: afs - is there an implementation for FreeBSD? To: ccsanady@bob.scl.ameslab.gov (Chris Csanady) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 06:48:15 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199710080231.VAA00673@bob.scl.ameslab.gov> from "Chris Csanady" at Oct 7, 97 09:31:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> As the subject already asks: Is anyone running AFS successfully under > >> FreeBSD? > > > >The last I have heard on this, the answer is no. There was someone > >working at Intel on this I think (working unofficially). I would > >be interested in taking up the torch on this (through my school, I already > >have a source license, I would just need 'permission' from TransARC/IBM to > >do the port). If the former maintainer could get back to ne, I would > >appreeciate, I have lost his email address. > > Why not just port the NetBSD client then? Last I used it, it worked very > well. 1) The VM is different. 2) Glue is necessary to invert the cookie arguments to VOP_READDIR, which are different for NetBSD/OpenBSD. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.