OpenAFS on FreeBSD Progress (Works)

Derrick Brashear shadow at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 16:43:26 PST 2008


On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Tony Jago <afs at spam.t71.org> wrote:

> Note that I have submitted additional patches for FreeBSD openafs server
>> and client that will probably appear in the next stable
>> release--including masking SIGSYS triggered by ktc_GetToken as used by
>> vos and other programs, when the lkm is not loaded [ugh], sorry didn't
>> fix that earlier.
>>
>
> That would be excellent. Another option would be to have many of the
> commands default to -localauth when the kernel module isn't loaded as this
> is probably what the user was wanting anyway.


Unless they're horribly broken they will be there.

>
> On this topic, it's impossible to setup an openafs server without a working
> afs client as you need to setup the root.cell and set permissions. For this
> reason I think afs will become a lot more used when the client is working.
>

Annoying, maybe. Hardly impossible.




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Derrick


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