[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 jon+openafs@silicide.dk wrote:


> > effect from where i'm sitting is "you can't have what you need to enable
> > you to keep working".
>
> Then one would have to find other ways to get it working.
> What work have the ARLA people been doing ? Do they have
> a working client? perhaps one that can be modified ?

Last time I talked to people their linux development was languishing a
bit. I assume they're in about the same spot we are.

> > -in order for PAGs to continue to work, we need some way to track process
> > creation and parenting. without that, it's not worth my time, personally,
> > to work on the client, because i need PAGs. i can't speak for anyone else,
> > because i have no employees who i get to speak for;-)
>
> why not store all the different PAG's the same place in the kernel,
> and then just look up there everytime a process needs a file. True
> it does take time, but at least it might work, and how many concurrent
> different users do you have anyway, so how big will the list/tree/array
> be? It could even be made so it is only the first time a process asks
> for a file it is checked if it can do that.

See yesterday's discussion on process management. I don't want to give
away my tokens.