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Date:      Sat, 06 Dec 1997 22:19:12 +0100
From:      Artur Grabowski <art@stacken.kth.se>
To:        freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Another alternative.
Message-ID:  <199712062118.WAA13164@sundance.stacken.kth.se>

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By a coincidence I've heard about your this list. It's nice that you try
to port AFS to FreeBSD (or any other free OS for that matter). But haven't
you thought that AFS is not free software? 

There is an alternative. Some people on KTH (Royal Institute of Tehchnolgy)
in Stockholm, Sweden have started developing a free AFS-clone. (I'm one
of them). The project is called Arla.

The projects goal is to write a fully compatible AFS-clone with all the 
necessary tools and functionality. 

The project status this far: readonly filesystem with caching and
authentication (the authentification doesn't work well for cached files
and the deamon is not fully stable), partially working vos and fs, full
support for OpenBSD and FreeBSD (the developing is done on those platforms),
partial support for SunOS and the development is starting for Linux.

The first official release will hopefully be made this year.

If this sounds interesting please mail arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se for
more information.

//Artur Grabowski



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