[OpenAFS] 2.6 linux kernel support; afs from ramdisk

[Ian Delahorne]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 18:51, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Ian Delahorne wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 09:24, 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.
> >
> > When it comes to some of the userland stuff, he's sortof right about the
> > code base. Code in src/volser/ is pretty butt ugly (and then we have a
> > different implementation of the same stuff in libadmin also...)
> >
> > (NB: I don't know anything of the history of that code, I'm just trying
> > to read it while implementing vos subcommands for Arla...)
> 
> You can run AFS without any of the userland;-)

Of course you can, just ask redhat :-)

> (it's hard to administer, but you can be a client with literally none, if 
> you have a kinit which gets tokens for you)

Are there people that do this for real (save space in the
ramdisk/network boot image/whatever)?