[OpenAFS] 2.6 linux kernel support; afs from ramdisk

[Horst Birthelmer]

On Aug 9, 2004, at 9:24 AM, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:

> On Saturday August 7, Christoph Hellwig, a Linux kernel developer,
> gave a presentation at Leeds on Linux filesystems.  He said that
> AFS was a buggy filesystem with a very messy code base, and that
> people should stay away from openafs, which was particularly
> unreliable.  I don't want to blame Christoph, who seems to have
> picked up some anti-AFS feeling from some other kernel programmers,
> but shouldn't we be doing something or other to counter this bad
> press?  I stood up to say that we had been using AFS for about 15
> years, and openafs since it came out, and that we were completely
> satisfied with it.
>

If he was referring to that "new" implementation in the kernel maybe 
he's right :-) (just a bad joke)

I usually say to something like that:
"How many programs do you know which run in kernelspace on more than 10 
platforms?? Show me their source code"
Most people start counting ... ;-)

BTW how many kernel programmers really use AFS, OpenAFS etc.?? so that 
they're so shure??
Actually I don't know what is worse ignorance or arrogance.


Horst