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

[Holger Brueckner]

i'm surprised

i never would have though that so many large installations don't use
custom kernels. i know that software distribution is a lot of work but i
would have thought that all of you having large scale installation have
their own redhat/debian/suse/whatever mirror to distribute pakets. then
exchanging the default kernel with a modified one would not be too
difficult.

what will you all do if your distributions will switch their default
kernel to 2.6 ? this will probably happen really soon and there won't be
a tested 2.6 client available till then.

Holger




On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 12:25, Holger Brueckner wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 17:55, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> > I'm probably one of those people. Don't get me wrong: the patch is a clean
> > implementation of what it does; my concern was basically one already
> > addressed here: "What of people who don't build their own kernel, and
> > don't want to?"
> 
> who really uses a standard kernel except desktop people ?
> these people for sure won't use afs themselves, since its not that easy
> to configure or maintain. you even have to rebuild afs kernel modules
> each time there is a kernel security upgrade and probably ever admin who
> is capable of rebuilding the kernel modules is capable of building his
> own kernel.
> 
> btw. what about a vote on the website about the different options ?
> ask your userbase what they want to have ;)
> 
> just my thoughts 
> 
> Holger
> 
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