[OpenAFS] kerberos, VFS and linux 2.6 issues

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

it depends on your definition of "work"..  All the file services work,
but PAGs don't work as they do on every other platform (including
linux <= 2.4).  In particular, on 2.6 PAGs do not survive a
setgroups() call.

Beyond that, AFS works just fine on 2.6.

-derek

Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org> writes:

> Hi!
>
> i am new to the list (but looked at the archives briefly).
> Someone shocked me the other day by telling me that AFS on linux
> 2.6 was broken. He mentioned some VFS issues that made it likely
> to be only fixed in 2.7/2.8.
>
> We (debian-edu, aka skolelinux) intended to use AFS for pseudo
> clustering of our terminal servers (which export the home
> directories of the resident users to the other terminal servers
> to provide all homedirs on all servers equally. For that we have
> started to fight over Heimdal vs MIT and similar implementational
> details allready. 
>
> So my questions are now: 
> - does AFS work reliably even on 2.6 kernels (it did sound good
>   in the other thread).
> - is this usage scenario well suited for AFS? i hear that not all
>   filetypes are supported on afs, and homedirs have e.g. symbolic
>   links (in .kde, for example).
>
> Please comment!
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