[OpenAFS] OpenAFS and FreeBSD

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Monday, October 08, 2001 12:41:33 -0400, Nicholas Basila 
<nbasila@bottlecapnotes.com> wrote:
+-----
| Hi,
|
|     I was wondering what the status of OpenAFS on FreeBSD is. I managed
| to get version 1.2 to build partially on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE. I got most,
| if not all of the normal userland tools to build, and they seem to work.
| However, I got a message saying that there was no kernel module
| available. I certainly don't mind building it into the kernel, but that
| didn't seem to work properly. Under src/libafs/STATIC, I found several
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There is no working OpenAFS kernel module, and therefore no working OpenAFS 
client.  The namei-based OpenAFS fileserver (which doesn't need kernel 
module support) and the other OpenAFS servers work, but for clients you 
still have to use Arla.

There are people actively working on OpenAFS FreeBSD support, but as it's 
on a time-available basis nobody can say when the client will work.

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electrical and computer engineering                                   KF8NH
carnegie mellon university     [linux: proof of the million monkeys theory]