From owner-freebsd-afs Fri Dec 5 04:39:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA21331 for afs-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 04:39:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-afs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA21321 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 04:39:39 -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 HAA19070 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 07:39:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 07:39:38 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" To: freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: AFS: Legal Status Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk A couple of months ago when interest in this was growing again, I was the only one I could find with access to a source license, so I contacted transarc (IBM) about the legal issues of doing a port, and having them distribute it in a similar fashion as the linux/netbsd port. I have a TR# with them, and still am awaiting to hear anything back. Has anyone else already done this, and hear back yet? --- David Cross ACS Consultant From owner-freebsd-afs Fri Dec 5 10:03:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA19886 for afs-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:03:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-afs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kodiak.eos.ncsu.edu (kodiak.eos.ncsu.edu [152.1.68.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA19878 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:03:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from camattin@eos.ncsu.edu) Received: (from camattin@localhost) by kodiak.eos.ncsu.edu (8.8.4/EC02Jan97) id SAA44332 for freebsd-afs@freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 18:03:26 GMT Message-Id: <199712051803.SAA44332@kodiak.eos.ncsu.edu> Subject: Who's done it? :) To: freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 13:03:25 -0500 (EST) From: camattin@eos.ncsu.edu (Chris A. Mattingly) Reply-To: camattin@eos.ncsu.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0b1/POP] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I've managed to compile all of the commands, but not being knowlegable enough about the kernel, have failed miserably at trying to get the lkm built. (AFS version 3.3, patchlevel 1.59) There's the OpenBSD port, which might be easier to get up to speed (disconnected afs at that) on a FreeBSD box than the terribly old Linux/NetBSD code that I am working with. But, I haven't contacted the folks who worked on that one yet. Anyone else had success and been quiet about it? :) -Chris -- Chris Mattingly | My views are not necessarily those of my employers camattin@ncsu.edu | NC State University/ITECS | "Good programmers write good code; great Systems Programmer | programmers 'borrow' good code." -- Mike Gancarz From owner-freebsd-afs Sat Dec 6 13:18:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA14644 for afs-outgoing; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 13:18:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-afs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sundance.stacken.kth.se (sundance.stacken.kth.se [130.237.234.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA14637 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 13:18:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from art@sundance.stacken.kth.se) Received: from nest.stacken.kth.se (nest.stacken.kth.se [130.237.234.60]) by sundance.stacken.kth.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13164 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 22:18:31 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712062118.WAA13164@sundance.stacken.kth.se> To: freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Another alternative. From: Artur Grabowski X-Mailer: Mew version 1.70 on Emacs 19.34.2 X-URL: http://www.stacken.kth.se/~art/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 22:19:12 +0100 Sender: owner-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk By a coincidence I've heard about your this list. It's nice that you try to port AFS to FreeBSD (or any other free OS for that matter). But haven't you thought that AFS is not free software? There is an alternative. Some people on KTH (Royal Institute of Tehchnolgy) in Stockholm, Sweden have started developing a free AFS-clone. (I'm one of them). The project is called Arla. The projects goal is to write a fully compatible AFS-clone with all the necessary tools and functionality. The project status this far: readonly filesystem with caching and authentication (the authentification doesn't work well for cached files and the deamon is not fully stable), partially working vos and fs, full support for OpenBSD and FreeBSD (the developing is done on those platforms), partial support for SunOS and the development is starting for Linux. The first official release will hopefully be made this year. If this sounds interesting please mail arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se for more information. //Artur Grabowski From owner-freebsd-afs Sat Dec 6 14:24:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA19434 for afs-outgoing; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 14:24:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-afs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA19429 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 14:24:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.4]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.6.10) with SMTP id RAA26847; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 17:23:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 17:24:13 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Artur Grabowski cc: freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another alternative. In-Reply-To: <199712062118.WAA13164@sundance.stacken.kth.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Artur Grabowski wrote: > By a coincidence I've heard about your this list. It's nice that you try > to port AFS to FreeBSD (or any other free OS for that matter). But haven't > you thought that AFS is not free software? I'd recommend taking a look at Coda, which is based on AFS. It has numerous new features, including replicated writable volumes, disconnected operation using hoarding, and so on. Visit www.coda.cs.cmu.edu for more information. It is also free, and currently has NetBSD and Linux implementations (plus others). Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/