Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 23:00:30 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r44431 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201404032300.s33N0U5N039325@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Thu Apr 3 23:00:29 2014 New Revision: 44431 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44431 Log: - Add 2014Q1 status report on the OpenAFS port Submitted by: bjk Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Thu Apr 3 19:05:05 2014 (r44430) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Thu Apr 3 23:00:29 2014 (r44431) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 8 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 9 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p> @@ -537,4 +537,48 @@ prime time at BSDCan 2014.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>OpenAFS on &os;</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Benjamin</given> + <common>Kaduk</common> + </name> + <email>bjk@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://openafs.org">OpenAFS homepage</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>AFS is a distributed network filesystem that originated from + the Andrew Project at Carnegie-Mellon University. OpenAFS is an + open-source implementation of the AFS protocol derived from IBM + AFS, which was released under the IBM Public License. OpenAFS + on &os; (the <tt>net/openafs</tt> port) is suitable for light + use, but is not yet production ready.</p> + + <p>We got a chance to pick up this porting project after some + hiatus. Recent work focused on investigating the bugs preventing + the use of a disk cache for caching file data. An internal + "lookupname" abstraction was intended to return an unlocked, + referenced vnode, but instead returned a locked, referenced + vnode, leading to various failure modes depending on the number + of kernel debugging options enabled.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Track down an issue involving incorrect reference counts on + the AFS root vnode that cause warnings on shutdown.</task> + + <task>Audit the locking in all the vnode operations code — + it is expected that there remain some incorrectly locked areas, + though none that present visible issues under light load.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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