[OpenAFS-devel] AFS On IRIX6.5.9 (07201610 IP19)

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Koundinya wrote:

> Hello all,
> 	We are planning to install AFS on IRIX Box which is a 64 Bit 
> ONYX machine having dual R4400 CPU Boards. I would like to know 
> if AFS is dynamically loadable on IRIX6.5.x. This is very 
> important for us as we have too many proprietary drivers 
> statically linked into the Kernel and our admin does not want us 
> to add more. here is the uname -a output from our box:
> 
> bash-2.04# uname -a
> IRIX64 scarlet 6.5 07201610 IP19

Yes, you should be able to dynamically load AFS on this platform and
architecture.  Even in cases where AFS cannot be loaded dynamically on
IRIX, the task of linking it into the kernel is fairly painless.

> BTW, from where can the binary distribution be downloaded ?. Or 
> is it required that we download the source specific for IRIX and 
> then compile it ?.

Binary releases of OpenAFS are available from
http://www.openafs.org/release/latest.html

The latest release is currently 1.2.1, and a binary distribution for
Irix 6.5 is available.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA