OpenAFS port

Derrick Brashear shadow at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 07:50:38 PST 2008


On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> wrote:

> "Derrick Brashear" <shadow at gmail.com> writes:
> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> wrote:
> >> "Derrick Brashear" <shadow at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > I don't believe there are conflicts between client objects, and server
> >> > objects. An independent client and server port should be possible.
> >>
> >> They both should install configuration files. Hence, they conflict
> >> here.
> >
> > Server and client use separate configuration, unless it's stuff *you
> added*,
> > and then it's a choice you made, OpenAFS itself doesn't have that issue.
> In
> > the old transarc-style universe, /usr/afs/etc versus /usr/vice/etc
>
> FreeBSD uses /usr/local/etc for all third-party configuration files,
> Both for servers and clients. So at least CellServDB and ThisCell
> should be dealed/installed by both.
>

That's bad. Actually, it's horrible. It means you force a server to be in
the same AFS cell as a client, whereas it's valid and I have done a client
in one cell as a server in another.


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