[OpenAFS] AFS in linux kernel 2.6

[Derek Atkins]

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> writes:

>> So far nobody has stepped up to work on the issues.  That will most
>> likely change once a stable 2.6.0 kernel is released and we start seeing
>> significant adoption of it.
>
> I have a way of emulating PAGs, storing security tokens and suchlike, but it
> won't directly in to 2.6 (due to the feature freeze). It'll have to wait till
> 2.7 opens and then get backported at some point.

*SIGHS*

>> You are correct that the AFS module included with the kernel is a joke.
>> The only real use I can see for it is for remote mounts of /usr, for
>> diskless booting or centralized software management.  I hope that the
>> idea is to introduce tokens with the in-kernel crypto API.  Otherwise,
>> it is mostly useless for real AFS sites.
>
> I wasn't permitted to add the caching or automount support in to 2.6 due to
> the feature freeze; nor can I add the security features until the token
> retension stuff goes in - also waiting on 2.7.

Can you at least get your patches into the Red Hat kernels??  ;)

> David

-derek

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