[OpenAFS-devel] AIX 6.1 support - anyone working on it?

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:50:32 -0400


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Niklas Edmundsson
<Niklas.Edmundsson@hpc2n.umu.se> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Niklas Edmundsson wrote:
>
>> Is anyone working on openafs-support for AIX6? I've seen that there is
>> support for it in IBM AFS now, but I've seen nothing for openafs.
>>
>> I suspect that getting basic support for AIX6 is just a matter of fixing
>> the build system, however I have no clue on what's needed for WPAR (workload
>> partitions) support and other new acronyms that's crept into AIX6. I don't
>> need the fancy stuff though, so if anyone has anything that improves the
>> situation I'm interested :)
>
> Noone seemed to be doing anything, so I dove right in.
>
> I can now read from AFS, it was mostly build system issues with the spice of
> a stupid bug or two in the openafs sources.
>
> I'll send along a patch when I have ironed out a few details, should I send
> it to bugs@, openafs-devel@ or both?
>
openafs-bugs@ will put it in RT; send there when you can.