OpenAFS on FreeBSD Progress (Works)

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Fri Dec 12 18:29:07 PST 2008


At 6:40 PM -0500 12/12/08, Ben Kaduk wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Palle Girgensohn <girgen at pingpong.net> wrote:
>>
>  > You don't need a meta port, you a client and a server port, and let the
>>  client install all common files, and let the server depend on the client,
>>  which is reasonable anyway.
>
>We have a couple of servers here (MIT SIPB) that aren't running clients.
>As the guy who installed them reasoned, it's just another thing that
>might go wrong.
>
>I think that separate client, server, and meta packages is perfectly 
>reasonable.

I'm pretty sure our AFS servers do not have the AFS client installed,
either.  Or at least, they did not, I'm not sure how they are set up
right this minute.  All our AFS clients are not servers, and all our
AFS servers are not clients.  (for cell /afs/rpi.edu )

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


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