[OpenAFS] ...Those That Help Themselves

Garance A Drosihn drosih@rpi.edu
Fri, 1 Jun 2001 11:47:06 -0400


At 3:48 PM +0200 6/1/01, Jimmy Engelbrecht wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
>
>>  We are particularly interested in it because it promises to supply
>>  clients for platforms that commercial AFS has lacked, or only
>>  marginally supported.  (I work a lot with MacOS 10 and FreeBSD,
>>  for instance).
>
>If you want Support for FreeBSD (or NetBSD and OpenBSD) & MacOS X i
>am pretty sure that the following implementation will work better:
>
>http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/
>
>However arla has no fileserver for production yet, and lacks support
>for many plattforms that are supported by OpenAFS.


I am aware of arla, but as you say, it has no fileserver support
yet.  As I mentioned, I am skittish of running file servers on
linux, so I am hoping openafs will provide that.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu