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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