[OpenAFS] openAFS with Tiger?

[Federico Balbi]

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Ciao



Federico Balbi
Division of Computer Science
University of Texas at San Antonio
6900 N. Loop 1604 West
San Antonio, TX 78249-0667

fbalbi@cs.utsa.edu
http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~fbalbi

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

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> On Thursday, April 28, 2005 05:38:43 PM +0200 Alberto Paoluzzi
> <paoluzzi@dia.uniroma3.it> wrote:
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> > Any experience about OpenAFS running smootly into Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger ?
> > I was unable to get 1.3.81 run with developer preview  Build 8A425  ...
>
> You asked this yesterday, and got no answer then; I'm not sure what makes
> you think you'll get an answer by asking again today.  My guess is that if
> anyone else with developer preview copies of Tiger has tried running
> OpenAFS, that (a) they've lost, and (b) they're keeping their mouths shut
> about it, in keeping with the terms of the NDA they signed.
>
> As you might expect, a new MacOS version generally requires work on the
> OpenAFS kernel module to adapt to changes in the system.  While I'm sure
> such work is ongoing (though I don't know how close to done it is), I'm
> equally sure that you won't see it prior to the official release, again
> because of that pesky NDA you have to sign to get copies of the previews.
>
> -- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
>    Sr. Research Systems Programmer
>    School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
>    Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA