[OpenAFS] open afs client on tru64 5.1

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 14 May 2001 16:21:00 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 15 May 2001, Clare West wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I hope this question is appropriate for this list.
> 
> I work at Auckland University, in the computer science department. We 
> are trying to move to AFS as a filing system here, as we roll Linux out 
> in our labs. However, we need to continue to use our main compute 
> servers which are Alphas running various versions of tru64.
> 
> The main one is a new machine running tru64 5.1. This machine needs to 
> be set up as an nfs server and client, and as an afs client. I 
> downloaded openafs 1.0.4 and after some jiggery pokery got it to 
> compile. However, it only produced the library libafs.nonfs.o. Whereas I 
> obviously require libafs.o as I have NFS in the kernel of this machine. 
> I also downloaded the binaries and again found only the nonfs module.

Nope. That module is for the afs/nfs translator, which we don't have. The
libafs.nonfs.o should be fine for your needs. You can still export
filesystems via NFS.

> Is there an afs client available for tru64 5.1 that is free to 
> educational institutions, will work  on a machine that also does nfs, 
> and which will talk to an openafs server which is running on Linux?

The one you're using.

-D