[OpenAFS-devel] unix afsd organization

[Andrew Deason]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:14:38 -0400
Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> wrote:

> --On Wednesday, June 17, 2009 02:33:47 PM -0500 Andrew Deason 
> <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> 
> > RT 124947 [1] has a patch for splitting up afsd into a kind of
> > backend and frontend of sorts. The "backend" is all of the logic of
> > command-line parsing, and issuing afs syscalls, and a few other
> > things. The "frontend", of which now there's only one but there
> > could be many, consists of code that's very specific to using the
> > afs kernel module client: how syscalls are made, mounting /afs,
> > etc. This division allows for easily swapping out the code for
> > kernel module with, say, the userspace kernel code.
> 
> I'm not sure why you would ever want to run afsd other than to set up
> the AFS kernel module.
> 
> I think maybe what you're looking for is to take the complex bits of
> logic that should be shared, like cache setup, and move them out into
> a library that can be called by the userspace cache manager.

Well, by both userspace and kernel. And that's basically what this is;
just afsd.o instead of libfoo.a. But we'd rather have this as another
.a, then?

-- 
Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net