[OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.0.3 Solaris8 with NAMEI...

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jeffrey B. Woodward wrote:

> I found the following little gem of information in the OpenAFS-info mailing
> list archive:
> 
> > Hartmut Reuter also contributed patches making it possible to build and
> > use the namei fileserver on Solaris 8 by just defining
> > #define AFS_NAMEI_ENV     1   /* User space interface to file system */
> > in src/config/param.sun4x_58.h before building, if you wish to go that
> > route.
> 
> If I understand things correctly, the NAMEI interface will leave my /vicepX
> partitions in their native UFS format, thus allowing me to use native
> ufsdump/ufsrestore and fsck (and perhaps even UFS logging). If this is true,
> and since I am not "migrating" existing data, this sounds ideal to me.
> However, I have ran into some problems trying to build the source
> distribution with AFS_NAMEI_ENV enabled:

> 
> BTW: It is not clear to me that if you define AFS_NAMEI_ENV in
> src/config/param.sun4x_58.h where or not you should then remove the define
> for  AFS_VFS_ENV??? I have tried it both ways and arrive at the same spot in
> both cases.

Grab a CVS snapshot tomorrow, or check one out now; Some further code in
that vein was committed in the last 12 hours.

-D