[OpenAFS] openafs client crashs after ubuntu kernel update

[Stephan Wiesand]

On Apr 7, 2016, at 19:03 , Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> On 4/7/2016 3:08 AM, Andreas Ladanyi wrote:
>> Short feedback:
>> The workaround with afs_GenericStoreProc works for the first tests.
>> Colleges told me that the workaround with afs_GenericStoreProc seems to
>> result in slower read/write operations.
> 
> 
> The performance of OpenAFS returning to the use of afs_GenericStoreProc
> is equivalent to that of the 1.4.x release series.
> 
> Slide 19 of
> 
>  http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/eakc2012/slides/AFS_Performance.pdf
> 
> will show you the difference in the performance curve.  The blue line
> will be equivalent to the performance of OpenAFS 1.6.17 on the Linux 4.3
> kernel and the green line will be the performance of the upcoming 1.6.18
> on the Linux 4.4 and later kernels.
> 
> The AuriStorFS clients for Linux 4.4 through 4.6.rc1 do not suffer this
> performance degradation.

Does Auristor provide Ubuntu LTS client packages? And what's the price tag?