[OpenAFS-port-freebsd] Re: afs port

[Johan Danielsson]

Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu> writes:

> I don't know the internals enough to answer that, but judging from
> the AFS Installation Guide, the kernel mods are pre-requisite to
> running the server processes.

That's because the fileserver uses special system calls to bypass the
ufs namespace when allocating files. Any first, sane, implementation
should probably go the linux way and circumvent this problem.

/Johan