[OpenAFS] OpenAFS & Linux kernel 2.6: please have a trackable bug report / task ?

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:47:57 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Todd M. Lewis wrote:

> It may be instructive to play with different ways of incorporating
> OpenAFS into 2.6.  On the other hand, it's hard to imaging a method of
> making PAGs behave correctly other than through the groups mechanism.

If you promise me Linux Security Module will be on in every kernel I could
do it now, probably. And I can certainly imagine ways of doing it,
*right*, without touching groups.

> Linus likes to generalize whenever it makes sense, so AFS PAGs will have
> to play nice with NFS4 PAGs to get into his kernel. It occurs to me that

Sure. That's the plan. Are NFS4 PAGs done yet?