[OpenAFS-devel] FreeBSD support -> from: aklog Makefile

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:38:02 +0100, Hugo Meiland <hugo@meiland.nl> said:

> On Dec 22, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Jim Rees wrote:

>> I have heard reports that the servers do work on FreeBSD.  Is that  
>> wrong?

> no, I even have some files lying around that would make it a freebsd  
> port

In late 2003, the csail.mit.edu cell was started on a desktop machine
in my office, running FreeBSD 5.2.

> it is just that I haven't seen much use in committing while there is  
> no client side working....

Arla works reasonably well; although there is still porting required
to make it work on 6.0/7-CURRENT, nnpfs is orders of magnitude easier
to port than the OpenAFS client (speaking as someone who has done
both).

-GAWollman