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

[chas williams (contractor)]

i have seriously considered just making afs work even with a patch.
the bulk of the work is going to be gluing the afs layer back into
the linux vfs layer.  if you dont keep up with that it can be 
tedious to go back and find all the changes you need to make (i know
i did it for the 2.2 -> 2.4 port).  the 2.6 changes in vfs should 
make it easier to add afs the correct way.  there is now a per fs
inode cache so afs can more closely police its inodes (and even get
the right things for a dynamic allocation of inodes).

it would be useful to atleast something working even if you need to
make a custom kernel (with the appropriate hooks for authentication).
at a later point someone can hopefully get things changed to work the
'right' way.

[while the linux kernel project might reject the patch perhaps the
various dists would consider including it in their kernels?  the redhat
kernel dist used to have quite a bit of stuff that wasnt in the 
'standard' kernel].