[OpenAFS] openafs on Fedora 12?

[Alf Wachsmann]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> On 8 Dec 2009, at 15:44, gottoomanyaccounts wrote:
>> I haven't found openafs packages for Fedora 12, which was released in 
>> November. Does anyone know the plane? Thanks.
>
> Fedora 12 has IMA enabled in its kernel by default. OpenAFS can't currently 
> co-exist with IMA, because IMA fundamentally breaks the core interface that 
> OpenAFS uses it access its disk cache. There is ongoing work to fix this 
> problem in the kernel.

OpenAFS version 1.4.11 works just fine on Fedora 12.

Due to the IMA stuff, you end up with tons of syslog messages
you can ignore (see earlier mails about "ima_file_free:  open/free imbalance").

-- Alf.

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