From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 17 08:11:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D294116A41A for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:11:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A86E913C469 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:11:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 445A9470E9; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:11:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:11:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Rune In-Reply-To: <20080116085630.GA32361@pappardelle.tekno.chalmers.se> Message-ID: <20080117080359.U51764@fledge.watson.org> References: <18CC5A4A2AC36D7FF57615EE@ganymede.hub.org> <478AF6BC.8050604@highperformance.net> <20080114142124.Y55696@fledge.watson.org> <20080116085630.GA32361@pappardelle.tekno.chalmers.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Jan Harkes , jcw@highperformance.net Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: AFS ... or equivalent ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:11:35 -0000 On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Rune wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Jason C. Wells wrote: >>> Sorry for the spam and cross posts. It seems like the interest in OpenAFS >>> on FreeBSD is building. I hope that this message will put the right >>> people in touch with each other and that maybe a concerted effort to port >>> OpenAFS to FreeBSD will arise. > > I want to hopefully make right people aware that there is an interest in > Coda on FreeBSD. > > Wonder who has the influence to make Coda a "first-class citizen" of > FreeBSD? Jan Harkes submitted a number of bug fixes for the FreeBSD Coda component to us in the past six months, which I've committed to CVS. It may be that more fixes are required to make Coda stable and supportable. I've added Jan to the CC, perhaps he can opine on what further work is required, and if I missed any further patches he sent. As with Arla, most of the logic for Coda is in userspace, so keeping Coda generaly working is generally low-overhead--as long as there are people running it against the CVS HEAD, where most of the VFS work takes place. Certainly as long as someone is doing the work to keep it running over time, we're happy to get the patches in the tree, and the changes he sent were relatively small to address, as you say, gradual evoution in VFS. Part of the problem was that once Coda stops working, getting it working again requires more knowledge of Coda than most FreeBSD developers have, and for some period (perhaps still), Coda worked poorly from behind a NAT, a common property of many development environments. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge