From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Nov 22 7:37:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from bsdone.bsdwins.com (www.bsdwins.com [192.58.184.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07AB237B416 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 07:37:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jwd@localhost) by bsdone.bsdwins.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) id fAMFbbw56646; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:37:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jwd) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:37:37 -0500 From: John De Boskey To: Andrea Campi Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Importing AFS / Arla in kernel Message-ID: <20011122103737.A56530@bsdwins.com> References: <20011122104225.GC1600@webcom.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011122104225.GC1600@webcom.it>; from andrea@webcom.it on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:42:25AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I tend to think this would be a good thing... Similar yet different to smbfs which is in the tree.. -John ----- Andrea Campi's Original Message ----- > Hi all, > > recently I've been working (on and off) with AFS, and in particular trying to > keep Arla working through all the changes (KSE etc), together with assar@. > Of course things would be much easier if the xfs module, which is at the base > of Arla, could be committed in the base kernel; this way, while I'd be more > than glad to act as maintainer for it and in general handling major stuff, > everybody would be able to help keep it in good shape. > > Does this need a vote or something? If there are no strong nay-sayers, I will > file a PR with everything. The sources would be imported in contrib, I already > have all the module glue etc. I'm not asking for commit access, assar would > handle commits for me; having access to both repositories, we would make sure > changes will go to Arla before, so sources will always be on vendor branch. > > I should probably mention again: this is not all of AFS, only the basic > kernel support. The rest will stay in ports, this just means better > support and easier updates. > > So, do you want it or not? > > Bye, > Andrea > > -- > To boldly go where I surely don't belong. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message