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On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 07:32:54PM +0100, Christopher Arnold wrote:
> 
> Is there anyone who has looked into using AFS as a distributed filestore 
> on FreeBSD.

Yes, plenty of people.  A few of us have even tried to get arla working in
6.x (stacken.kth.se), but I never had time to complete the project.  Too
many VFS changes broke this.

> Yes im aware of issues running AFS on 6.x but i belive there exists an 
> existing implementation under 5.x. And if enough people need it i guess we 
> could make shure it runs ok under 6.x to.

Arla works okay under 5.x, but there are a number of bugs.

-- Rick C. Petty