Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 13:51:41 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (Ken Hornstein) Cc: rmallory@wiley.csusb.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AFS client for freebsd? Message-ID: <199603122051.NAA06431@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603120514.AAA24840@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> from "Ken Hornstein" at Mar 12, 96 00:15:00 am
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> >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 > >other os including OS2 and NT.. > > It's worth pointing out that Transarc didn't have anything to do with the > NetBSD AFS client - that was done by John Kohl and others at MIT. > > If you have a source license, I would think it wouldn't be that hard to > port the source-code diffs (I looked at the code myself, for other reasons). > They're pretty straightforward. If you don't .... try to find someone > who does :-) The port is trivial if you: 1) Unset the vmio flag 2) Hack the VOP_READDIR cookie code (FreeBSD and NetBSD differ here; see the NFS server code for specifics). Note that the NetBSD port is only available as binary, and only then if you have an AFS license already. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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