OpenAFS for FreeBSD...

Garrett Wollman wollman at csail.mit.edu
Tue Oct 25 13:39:59 PDT 2005


<<On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:56:07 -0400, "Matt Emmerton" <matt at gsicomp.on.ca> said:

> OpenAFS has a partial port to FreeBSD; there have been a few folks who have
> been dilligently working on this over the past couple of years.

> From http://www.openafs.org/projects.html, it appears that all the *BSDs
> have some degree of support but with missing pieces.

The OpenAFS kernel code is an incredible festering pile of
excr^H^H^H^H#ifdefs.  I had much better luck getting Arla to work
properly; it doesn't try to do so much in the kernel.  So I stopped
working on OpenAFS.  I think Jim Rees still keeps a hand in....

-GAWollman



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