svn commit: r44431 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Thu Apr 3 23:00:30 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Thu Apr  3 23:00:29 2014
New Revision: 44431
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44431

Log:
  - Add 2014Q1 status report on the OpenAFS port
  
  Submitted by:	bjk

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml	Thu Apr  3 19:05:05 2014	(r44430)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml	Thu Apr  3 23:00:29 2014	(r44431)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 8 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 9 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and
       June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -537,4 +537,48 @@
 	prime time at BSDCan 2014.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='ports'>
+    <title>OpenAFS on &os;</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Benjamin</given>
+	  <common>Kaduk</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>bjk at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://openafs.org">OpenAFS homepage</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>AFS is a distributed network filesystem that originated from
+	the Andrew Project at Carnegie-Mellon University.  OpenAFS is an
+	open-source implementation of the AFS protocol derived from IBM
+	AFS, which was released under the IBM Public License.  OpenAFS
+	on &os; (the <tt>net/openafs</tt> port) is suitable for light
+	use, but is not yet production ready.</p>
+
+      <p>We got a chance to pick up this porting project after some
+	hiatus.  Recent work focused on investigating the bugs preventing
+	the use of a disk cache for caching file data.  An internal
+	"lookupname" abstraction was intended to return an unlocked,
+	referenced vnode, but instead returned a locked, referenced
+	vnode, leading to various failure modes depending on the number
+	of kernel debugging options enabled.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Track down an issue involving incorrect reference counts on
+	the AFS root vnode that cause warnings on shutdown.</task>
+
+      <task>Audit the locking in all the vnode operations code —
+	it is expected that there remain some incorrectly locked areas,
+	though none that present visible issues under light load.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
