[OpenAFS] 2.6?

Andreas andreas@netbank.com.br
Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:26:30 -0200


On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:20:44PM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Paul Blackburn wrote:
> 
> > Hello Derrick,
> >
> > Please could you explain what are the problems
> > with porting OpenAFS to the 2.6 kernel?
> >
> the basic problem is we can't hook the afs syscall in anymore, so
> everything which uses it needs to be reimplemented to work aanother way.

Well, it's not like the 2.6 kernel was ready in a month, these changes took
place over many months, but I assume there were bigger issues with openafs
than to worry about kernel 2.5 (at that time).