AFS in FreeBSD ...

[Robert Watson]

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 at 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