[OpenAFS-devel] RE: [OpenAFS] linux 2.4.2

Neulinger, Nathan nneul@umr.edu
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:22:54 -0500


Sure would be nice if the inode had a "file system specific" hook in it that
could be used to tack on AFS specific stuff in a separate structure.

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Katz [mailto:katzj@linuxpower.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:01 PM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] linux 2.4.2
> 
> 
> Nothing that hasn't been integrated in cvs except for a couple things
> which are ac-kernel specific.  But integrating those is hard 
> until they
> get into upstream kernels.  
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> On Wednesday, April 18 2001, Neulinger, Nathan said:
> 
> > Oh, so just visual/layout changes, no code changes.
> > 
> > -- Nathan
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jeremy Katz [mailto:katzj@linuxpower.org]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 12:42 PM
> > > To: Neulinger, Nathan
> > > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] linux 2.4.2
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wednesday, April 18 2001, Neulinger, Nathan said:
> > > > Out of curiosity, what are ncsu's local mods? 
> > > 
> > > Basically the spec file has evolved from the one which we 
> were using
> > > with Transarc afs and doesn't include a kernel-source 
> package.  Also,
> > > right now I've still got server binaries in /usr/afs 
> until I convince
> > > people here that it's wrong :P  
> > > 
> > > Then just various patches to get it to build nice on Red Hat Linux
> > > without having to create symlinks in /usr/local.  And not to 
> > > compile the
> > > ftpd and such :)
> > > 
> > > Chances are as far as how the package looks, I'm probably 
> > > going to work
> > > towards making it look more like the official ones and have 
> > > talked with
> > > Derek a little about working on merging some of the stuff.
> > > 
> > > Jeremy
> > > 
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> -- 
> Jeremy Katz
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