From owner-freebsd-afs Sat Dec 6 13:18:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA14644 for afs-outgoing; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 13:18:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-afs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sundance.stacken.kth.se (sundance.stacken.kth.se [130.237.234.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA14637 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 13:18:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from art@sundance.stacken.kth.se) Received: from nest.stacken.kth.se (nest.stacken.kth.se [130.237.234.60]) by sundance.stacken.kth.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13164 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 22:18:31 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712062118.WAA13164@sundance.stacken.kth.se> To: freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Another alternative. From: Artur Grabowski X-Mailer: Mew version 1.70 on Emacs 19.34.2 X-URL: http://www.stacken.kth.se/~art/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 22:19:12 +0100 Sender: owner-afs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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