[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Re: Many crashes on OS X 10.3

[Jason Ferrara]

Which brings me to ask again, is there anyone in charge of the darwin 
port
of OpenAFS? Or has it been abandoned?

On Feb 6, 2004, at 5:25 PM, Ragnar Sundblad wrote:

>
> --On den 6 februari 2004 19:40 +0100 Massimo Marino 
> <Massimo_Marino@lbl.gov> wrote:
>
>> First: I am not flaming but it might be important to know for people 
>> in
>> charge that it is not AFS per se: I use Arla with OS X 10.3 and the
>> system is as solid as it could be. Never had a single kernel panic in 
>> two
>> years now and AFS is on daily.
>
> I sure don't want to flame anyone either, but I have to say that
> this is my experience too. We have been using Arla since 10.0,
> and very seldom have panics, and I have never seen one that
> I couldn't relate to something else (maybe in combination with
> arla, it was for example before very easy to trig a panic by
> fooling around with mounting urls with the command line tools,
> I never tried it without arla).
>
> We are now testing OpenAFS with 10.3, since we felt that there
> is currently more programming effort going into OpenAFS than
> Arla (maybe not on Mac OS X, though), but I think it is far
> to unstable to be useful. A minute ago I crashed my machine
> just with a find in a directory in my home directory
> (which is in afs).
>
> These bugs are hopefully easy to smash, OpenAFS works very well
> on many other operating systems, but is there anyone working on it?
>
> Sadly I don't know enough about unix filesystems and and unix
> virtual memory to easily get going myself.
>
> /ragge
>
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