Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:52:42 -0400 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: "Alec Kloss" <alec-keyword-arla.4d43de@setfilepointer.com> Cc: afs@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org>, arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se Subject: Re: Patches to get Arla running on FreeBSD 8-CURRENT Message-ID: <47d0403c0807152152j7c452b3cp275f8015da783542@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080226061140.GI28956@hamlet.SetFilePointer.com> References: <20080216035658.W93919@fledge.watson.org> <20080218012608.V96329@fledge.watson.org> <20080222125207.GD38141@hamlet.setfilepointer.com> <20080223092516.O23969@fledge.watson.org> <20080223102922.GF38141@hamlet.setfilepointer.com> <20080223110549.GG38141@hamlet.setfilepointer.com> <20080223161249.GH38141@hamlet.setfilepointer.com> <90334B40754BEDC2991E0147@ganymede.hub.org> <p0624081bc3e936674ece@128.113.24.47> <20080226061140.GI28956@hamlet.SetFilePointer.com>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Alec Kloss <alec-keyword-arla.4d43de@setfilepointer.com> wrote: > On 2008-02-25 22:23, Garance A Drosehn wrote: >> At 9:38 PM -0400 2/25/08, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> >Hash: SHA1 >> > >> >Can we commit these patches to ports itself, maybe with the make >> >file setup so 6.x is marked BROKEN while dealing with the problems >> >there? Might get more testers involved ... ? >> >> Or create a new port, "arla8", or "arla-dev". > > To the best of my knowledge, the port I made > (http;//setfilepointer.com/pub/afs/FreeBSD) works for 6.3, 7.0 and > -current, except maybe for changes in the last few days in -current > which may have broken the port. If there's sufficient interest, > I'll add 5.x support (via arla 0.43) to the port as well, but I was > hoping to avoid that, as it's a lot of overhead and arla's newish > block-by-block cache (thanks Thomas) which isn't available in arla > 0.43 makes arla highly competitive with the OpenAFS client > available elsewhere. > > As for getting the port into the ports tree, I think everyone's all > for it, but Thomas is volunteering to help merge our patch into the > arla sources which I'd prefer over maintaining a jumbo patch like > what we have now. I'm optimistic that we can probably have > everything ready by/after the weekend. > > So, please do test the port, and whine at me and/or Robert about > issues with it. I'm trying to shelter him from the details as long > as he shelters me from VFS. :) Sorry to reply to such an old thread, but I see that there have been recent contributions to the AFS page on the FreeBSD wiki (such as testing on 7.0-release), but the port still hasn't made it into the FreeBSD Ports Collection. Is this in the works? Is it merely lacking for manpower? Thanks, Ben Kaduk
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