[OpenAFS] 2.6 linux kernel support; afs from ramdisk

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Monday, August 09, 2004 19:40:24 +0200 Ian Delahorne <ian@assv.net> 
wrote:

>> (it's hard to administer, but you can be a client with literally none,
>> if  you have a kinit which gets tokens for you)
>
> Are there people that do this for real (save space in the
> ramdisk/network boot image/whatever)?

Hi.

We do RedHat net installs using AFS.
Nowadays we use a disk cache and real afsd, but several versions ago we had 
an installer floppy image which contained an appropriate libafs and nothing 
else -- the installer contained enough code to start AFS in memcache mode.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA