[OpenAFS-devel] openafs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3

[Kris Van Hees]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 01:04:36PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> writes:
> > Hooks are not an issue, because System.map is always available
> > on RHEL systems. However, the patching code has to know how the
> > syscall table is organized specifically on s390, paying attention
> > to variations of s390x (interleaved table for 64 and 31 bit modes).
> 
> This begs the question of whether AFS was ever ported to s390...  That
> I don't know.

OpenAFS has been ported to s390 in much earlier versions, but the port has
not been kept up to date as well as it should.  It is noteworthy that OpenAFS
runs fine on s390 on Debian and SuSE with recent 2.4 kernels.  But even the
SuSE one needed a few ugly patches, so I bet RedHat will be similar.

For s390x, no port exists yet.

The unofficial, no-warranty (blah blah, standrd disclaimer) release for SuSE
SLES8 is at http://www.sinenomine.net/downloads/openafs/ if that would be any
help.

If I can get my hands on a copy of RHEL to install on Sine Nomine's S/390 box,
I'll check into this issue.  Alternatively, if someone could give me access to
an S/390 box with RHEL on it, please email me privately.

	Kris