From owner-freebsd-afs Sun Dec 7 14:37:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA29272 for afs-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 14:37:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-afs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (root@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA29251 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 14:37:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA26835; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:51:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:51:10 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" To: John Robert LoVerso cc: freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new AFS list In-Reply-To: <199712072144.QAA26338@loverso.southborough.ma.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, John Robert LoVerso wrote: > I doubt you'll get permission to distribute the sources to anyone without > an AFS source license. You might be able to distribute binaries, although > I'm almost certain they didn't even give that permission to the Linux port. No, just the binaries... The linux people did get that permission... the Linux port is distributed through transarc (unofficially) > > Either way, an AFS port is still useful. There are many organizations > that have AFS source licenses that would like to have it work on FreeBSD. > > I'll also note that the cache manager bug I'm talking about was most clearly > with FreeBSD's VM (and or the port of AFS to it). The same AFS 3.3 sources > run on Linux and NetBSD without problems. We've used similar 3.3 sources > on OSF/1 systems (for x86 here at OSF, not to be confused with what is now > Digital UNIX) for years. never though I would here AFS and 'run without problems' mentioned in the same sentence ;) Ok... just checking, becuase we used to have cache corruption probelms all the time here (especially on our Sun machines) -- David Cross ACS Consultant