[OpenAFS] open afs client on tru64 5.1

Matt Elliott melliott@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Mon, 14 May 2001 15:59:07 -0500


I stand corrected.  The Transarc AFS version won't let you install the
nonfs version on solaris if you are using the system as an NFS server.
Apparently OpenAFS doesn't have that limitation.

At 4:57 PM -0400 5/14/01, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>On Mon, 14 May 2001, Matt Elliott wrote:
>
>> If you had been installing the Solaris version you wouldn't have been
>> confused since your original understanding is correct for that
>> architecture.  Transarc's install instructions still need a bit of work for
>> the first time user to actually install without difficulties the first time.
>
>Can't be correct for that architecture, or OpenAFS wouldn't work on a
>Solaris box with NFS configured. The machine on the desk in my office
>would beg to differ; It's impossible to compile non "nonfs" versions of
>modules with OpenAFS, because IBM couldn't give us the Sun-copyright
>source needed to do it.
>
>-D

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