[OpenAFS] Linux kernel 2.6 & AFS

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:34:14 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

> I've seen some discussion about openafs on the 2.6 kernel, and how long
> it will take to get anything working.

I'm told that some of the work will start appearing in OpenAFS RT this
weekend, or may already have.

> Has anyone had a discussion with dhowells (who wrote the 2.6 in-kernel
> afs implementation) about using kafs along with the openafs client
> utilities (such as 'fs', 'aklog', & friends?)
>
> I kinda suspect it might actually be faster to get this working than to
> try to rewrite PAG and pioctl handling. (which nobody seems to have time
> to do, or if they do, they aren't talking about it)

His client didn't have those yet either, last I looked. Same set of
problems, different code base.