[OpenAFS-devel] Minimal hpux11 support (no libafs kernel supp ort) - but will cleanly build everything else

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On 27 Mar 2001, Derek Atkins wrote:

> It has always been the case, in all ports.  If it is not required then
> that is a new occurrance.

The kernel module is not required for ports that use the namei fileserver,
where vice inodes are given paths in the host filesystem instead of being
accessed directly by inode number.  This method is slower on some
filesystems, but doesn't require kernel support.

Unfortunately, I get the impression that more and more ports are doing
this and calling it "good enough" instead of using the more efficient
inode interface.  This result is that AFS fileserver performance on those
platforms will suffer.

-- Jeff