Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:08:08 -0600 From: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-arla@kiwi-computer.com> To: Christopher Arnold <chris@arnold.se> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se Subject: Re: UFS2 with SAN Message-ID: <20070214170808.GC96725@keira.kiwi-computer.com> In-Reply-To: <20070214173211.L1054@chrishome.localnet> References: <20070213075627.63126.qmail@web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <6FC9F9894A9F8C49A722CF9F2132FC2204C9DAB4@ms05.mailstreet2003.net> <a969fbd10702130839j727d055bu10c3ec80e38d2a3d@mail.gmail.com> <6FC9F9894A9F8C49A722CF9F2132FC2204C9DAB5@ms05.mailstreet2003.net> <6FC9F9894A9F8C49A722CF9F2132FC2204C9DAB6@ms05.mailstreet2003.net> <45D1F30A.6080403@freebsd.org> <eqsut3$6a3$1@sea.gmane.org> <20070213192906.U726@chrishome.localnet> <20070214162938.GA96725@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <20070214173211.L1054@chrishome.localnet>
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 05:42:12PM +0100, Christopher Arnold wrote: > > Im really interested in getting arla and/or openafs working on the > FreeBSD's after the VFS overhaul. Do you have an stimate on how much > effort is needed? At one point I submitted patches which allowed arla to *compile* properly, but it kernel panicked when loading the module. I suspect it was related to changes in locking strategies between 5.x and 6.x. A few other people on the arla-drinkers mailing list were able to patch the module a bit further and it didn't panic at kldload (but did when trying to do any FS operation). Those patches never made it into arla and AFAIK no one has made any further progress. A coworker of mine was trying to apply those patches to 7.x, thinking fbsd folks would be more willing to accept it. I'm not sure how far he got. > Even thou i don't have a huge budget i'm villing to put some dollars into > making that happen so i could make a proper evaluation in using AFS as a > backend for web and ftp servers. Ill start with 1000 USD, anyone > else who would like to contribute? I'm hoping there will be some takers. We use AFS at work on 5.x for production and release engineering as well as backups. The OpenAFS server works just fine in FreeBSD (because it's all userland) and the Arla client seems to behave just fine on DragonFly, Mac OS X, and all other BSDs. In FreeBSD, it's a wash. -- Rick C. Petty
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