From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 12 04:52:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA10486 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 04:52:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from wa3ymh.transsys.com (#6@wa3ymh.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA10481 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 04:52:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from wa3ymh.transsys.com (#6@localhost.TransSys.COM [127.0.0.1]) by wa3ymh.transsys.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA06448; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 07:51:56 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199603121251.HAA06448@wa3ymh.transsys.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Rob Mallory , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: AFS client for freebsd? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 1996 20:16:20 PST." <305.826604180@time.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 07:51:54 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I know Transarc does not currently support FreeBSD, but does > > anyone have any information of them planning to write an AFS lkm > > for FreeBSD? They have clients for netbsd, and just about every > > I've approached them on this several times, and each time they say > they'd want $500K up front to do it first. The NetBSD port was > apparently a special circumstance since CMU has a license to port the > code. Likely CMU has an AFS source code license, and Transarc allowed them to redistribute the (binary) port they did to other sites with AFS licenses, source or not. They're probably not very interested, as AFS 4 is on the back-burner, and the heat's being turned down. Or so they believe; they're pushing AFS 5, which is basically OSF DFS. It's likely not to have wide acceptance in existing AFS 4 sites, since they've actually got something that works now. I've seen the AFS 4 source code at a previous employer, and it's pretty scary in there, a maze of #ifdefs, all alike.. louie