[OpenAFS] Upgrade from 1.2.8 to 1.4.7

[Russ Allbery]

jcw@highperformance.net writes:

> I so strongly desire FreeBSD server and client.  I spent yesterday
> trying to compile FreeBSD. meh.

The server should compile on FreeBSD.  I think the client is either
experimental or known not to work particularly well; I forget which.

> What do people recommend for an OS to run on x86 with OpenAFS 1.4.7? I'd
> prefer something that has binary builds from OpenAFS.org if I can get
> it.

We run all of our OpenAFS file servers on Debian stable.  You will want to
use the OpenAFS packages available from backports.org to get the latest
fixes.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>