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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: AFS client for freebsd?
To: kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (Ken Hornstein)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 13:51:41 -0700 (MST)
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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
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