[OpenAFS] Fwd: OpenAfs on AIX 5.3

Horst Birthelmer horst@riback.net
Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:00:37 +0100


On Jan 27, 2006, at 9:59 PM, Enrique Sanchez wrote:
> Step 5 of the Overview  for Installing Server Functionality says:
>
>
> On some system types, install and configure an AFS-modified version of
> the fsck program.
>
> Is there documentation on which systems this needs to
> be done?

It is only true for systems having an inode fileserver, which most of  
todays AIX systems have not.
AFAIK the namei fileserver ist the default one on AIX.

> If the AFS modifed version of the fsck program is not present in the
> binary distribution is not present, should I assume it is not
> required?
>
> What filesystem types are supported on AIX 5.3?

For the fileserver or the client cache?
For the namei fileserver any filesystem should do.

Horst