[OpenAFS-devel] automatically spawning afsd from kernelspace?

[Horst Birthelmer]

On May 18, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Niklas Edmundsson wrote:

> On Wed, 18 May 2005, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
>
>> Loading the module should consist of 'modprobe openafs', not the 
>> several
>> hacks there of are looking in several different places. And no, I 
>> don't
>> have time to re-write them, I'm just being a whiner right now.
>
> Try using modprobe on a non-Linux box.
>
> I think one point being missed is that the current way of doing things 
> is pretty similar for all architectures. You don't want to fragment 
> the already fragmented code into more "on this architecture we do this 
> instead of that"... There's enough architechture-specific obfuscation 
> going on as is...
>

Thanks Nikke ;-)
I was just about to type almost the same thing when your mail came in 
...

I have one more point. There are platforms where AFS isn't a 
dynamically loaded kernel module so we're a bit in trouble on those 
platforms with your suggested solution.

On IRIX and HPUX (actually I never tried anything else on HPUX) the 
static modules are more stable for me, so that's what I use... and it 
just works. :-)

Horst