[OpenAFS] naive questions about openafs

[Guillaume Rousse]

I'm interested about being able to use afs from mandrake, because it is 
widely used in my institution. However, I'm totally clueless about afs, 
so it's a bit difficult for me to figure what is needed exactly.

First, current mdk kernel (2.6.10) ships an afs module. However, looking 
at source file, it seems to be a redhat implementation, unrelated to 
openafs one.

There is also a package krbafs-utils, described as "A Kerberos to AFS 
bridging library", that doesn't seems to be sufficient to access afs 
filesystems.

I had a look at the rpm available from openafs website. However it seems 
to be uncompatible with kernel 2.6, so I'd have to package devel version 
instead, and it would be a lot of work anyway to adapt it to official 
mdk packaging policy.

So my naive question is: do I really need openafs for my needs, and how 
it is related to what is already in the distribution (kernel module and 
krbafs-utils package) ?
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