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

[Derek Atkins]

Linux does provide a FS-specific structure in struct inode.  We could
try using u.generic_ip, which is a void*.

I had considered using this in my original port but decided I didn't
want to try to merge AFS' and Linux's ideas of who owned the inode.
Nowadays I acknowledge that that was a bad long-term decision.  Ah
well, hindsight is 20/20 :)

-derek

"Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu> writes:

> 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
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Jeremy Katz
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> > > > 
> > -- 
> > Jeremy Katz
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> > http://linuxpower.org	| Developer, NCSU Realm Kit for Red Hat Linux
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