[OpenAFS] kerberos, VFS and linux 2.6 issues

[Andreas Schuldei]

Hi!

i am new to the list (but looked at the archives briefly).
Someone shocked me the other day by telling me that AFS on linux
2.6 was broken. He mentioned some VFS issues that made it likely
to be only fixed in 2.7/2.8.

We (debian-edu, aka skolelinux) intended to use AFS for pseudo
clustering of our terminal servers (which export the home
directories of the resident users to the other terminal servers
to provide all homedirs on all servers equally. For that we have
started to fight over Heimdal vs MIT and similar implementational
details allready. 

So my questions are now: 
- does AFS work reliably even on 2.6 kernels (it did sound good
  in the other thread).
- is this usage scenario well suited for AFS? i hear that not all
  filetypes are supported on afs, and homedirs have e.g. symbolic
  links (in .kde, for example).

Please comment!