[OpenAFS-devel] Updated redhat workaround patch

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
22 Oct 2002 10:10:53 -0400


Oh, he merged in that crap?  Damn.  It's a read-only,
no-authentication, no-vlserver-lookup AFS client.  What's
the point?

-derek

Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:36:40AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Why would Red Hat specifically care about OpenAFS?  In particular, why
> > would they care about making it fail to work?
> 
> I'm not advocating a conspiracy theory, but it's worth noting that Linus
> recently merged a lightweight kernel-based AFS client written by someone
> @redhat into the 2.5 kernel. So in a sense, someone there cares, but I
> highly doubt they would spitefully do anything to break OpenAFS.
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
> Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>
> _______________________________________________
> OpenAFS-devel mailing list
> OpenAFS-devel@openafs.org
> https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available