[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x

[jon+openafs@silicide.dk]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 06:07:37AM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 jon+openafs@silicide.dk wrote:

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> > 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.

Maybe we could make a joint venture?


> > 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.

why would a suggestion like mine give away your tokens? Unless there
was a bug. One could make a tree for each user to store the data in,
then 2 users should have 0 chance of being mixed up.



JonB