[OpenAFS] openafs w/ amd64 kernel and 32bit user space

Chaskiel M Grundman cg2v@andrew.cmu.edu
Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:24:37 -0400


--On Friday, March 23, 2007 12:33:42 PM -0400 Christopher Allen Wing 
<wingc@engin.umich.edu> wrote:

> Yes, this works; however, why do you want to use 32-bit user space?

Not that I know ken's reasoning, but here's why I would do so:

Because I already have a managed 32-bit environment, and creating a 64-bit 
version of that environment would take more effort than I can afford to 
spend (but building and testing a kernel and some kernel modules would not)