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Date:      04 Jan 1998 16:46:42 +0100
From:      Bjoern Groenvall <bg@sics.se>
To:        "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
Cc:        Bjoern Groenvall <bg@sics.se>, freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AFS server support
Message-ID:  <wuhg7kqm1p.fsf@bg.sics.se>
In-Reply-To: "David E. Cross"'s message of Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:04:34 -0500 (EST)
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980104100302.20178A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>

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"David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> writes:

> > I recently modified fsck to support VICE inodes and wrote a loadable
> > kernel module with enough support to run an AFS file server. Are there
> > any other people who are currently working on AFS support in FreeBSD?

> Yes, there are a number of us here.... It sounds as if you have access to
> the AFS source (and havre gotten a fair ammount of it to compile, and run
> stabely?)  What version of AFS are you working with?

Unfortunately I don't have access to AFS source. Anyways the support
for VICE inodes suffices to run both AFS and Coda file servers and I
think it would be a good thing if this support was part of FreeBSD.

Most of the file server functionality in AFS and Coda is implemented
using system calls icreate, iopen, iinc and idec. Since the Transarc
AFS code already runs under NetBSD it should be fairly easy to compile
everything but the kernel cache manager and with the aid of my module
run a FreeBSD AFS file server. Did anybody out there try to compile
(part of) the Transarc sources under FreeBSD?

Cheers,
Björn



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