AFS in FreeBSD 5.4 or 6

[Craig Ryhorchuk]

Around about Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:20:46 -0500 Garance A Drosihn commented:

>At 6:27 PM +0000 2/28/06, Craig Ryhorchuk wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>  I am looking for specific instructions on installing,
>>maintaining and using AFS with FreeBSD 5.4 or 6.  I want to set
>>up one or more servers and make them available to clients running
>>whatever O/S.  I think Arla has the client side covered if
>>necessary, but all I can find for server-side is a downloadable
>>instruction-free bundle for 6.0 on the OpenAFS site.  There are
>>specific instructions for other supported O/Ss but none for FreeBSD.
>>I have Googled and searched; not exhaustively I hope.  There has
>>to be something out there.
>
>I think there are some people who run openafs servers on FreeBSD,
>but probably just people who already know enough about running
>OpenAFS servers that it is "obvious" (to them) what you would
>need to do.
>
>The problem is that the openafs client-side for FreeBSD never
>gets quite to the point of working.  So, the number of openafs
>users on freebsd never reaches critical mass to get some of the
>less exciting work done -- such as OS-specific documentation...


Thanks for the info.  That's a bummer.  I thought this might be the
perfect solution to a business problem, but if this is the state of it, I
guess the idea is a non-starter.
*sigh* - I guess it's back to linux again.
I know.  I need to port it myself and not complain, but I claim to be
a sysadmin and not a kernel hacker.