From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Jan 4 09:00:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA07349 for fs-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 09:00:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA07343; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 09:00:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA17899; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 12:00:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 12:00:21 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" To: Bjoern Groenvall cc: freebsd-afs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AFS server support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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? Yes, there are a couple of us (with AFS source licenses) that are trying to get a working, then a stable AFS release under FreeBSD (3.4a AFS). So far I have not devoted as much time to this as I should, I will give it another good effort today. -- David Cross UNIX Systems Administrator GE CRD