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Date:      Sun, 4 Jan 1998 12:00:21 -0500 (EST)
From:      "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
To:        Bjoern Groenvall <bg@sics.se>
Cc:        freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AFS server support
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980104115753.16315A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <wuhg7kqm1p.fsf@bg.sics.se>

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> Unfortunately I don't have access to AFS source. Anyways the support
> for VICE inodes suffices to run both AFS and Coda file servers and I
> think it would be a good thing if this support was part of FreeBSD.
> 
> Most of the file server functionality in AFS and Coda is implemented
> using system calls icreate, iopen, iinc and idec. Since the Transarc
> AFS code already runs under NetBSD it should be fairly easy to compile
> everything but the kernel cache manager and with the aid of my module
> run a FreeBSD AFS file server. Did anybody out there try to compile
> (part of) the Transarc sources under FreeBSD?

Yes, there are a couple of us (with AFS source licenses) that are trying
to get a working, then a stable AFS release under FreeBSD (3.4a AFS).

So far I have not devoted as much time to this as I should, I will give it
another good effort today.

--
David Cross
UNIX Systems Administrator
GE CRD




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