Re: Patches to get Arla running on FreeBSD 8-CURRENT

Palle Girgensohn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.afs,gmane.comp.file-systems.arla.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

--On söndag, sö 24 feb 2008 18.17.17 -0600 Alec Kloss 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2008-02-25 00:22, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>> I'm delighted to see all this chatter about arla. Any chance we can get
>> a  server working as well? I reckon that should, in principle, be
>> easier,  since it is not as much kernel involvement, right? But the best
>> bet is  OpenAFS, and it is different animal, so the KTH guys are not as
>> deep into  this code?
>>
>> /Palle <[email protected]>
>>
>> And hi, Rasmus! :-)
>>
>>
>
> Oh, the OpenAFS server has worked on FreeBSD forever, and I run two
> cells with multiple terabytes of data on FreeBSD only.  The OpenAFS
> param files tend to be out of date but I'm planning on getting
> on top of that too.  There's a port of OpenAFS 1.5.30 I put together
> available right next to the arla stuff here:
>
> http://setfilepointer.com/pub/afs/FreeBSD/

I'll be darned. I'll need to find some time to check it out, I guess!

> I tend to install the server everywhere I install arla because the
> vos and bos commands in arla in incomplete compared to their
> implementation in openafs.  I suppose I should nag someone at
> OpenAFS to include the new param files I made for newer FreeBSDs
> (not that the new param files are particularly inspired).  It'd be
> great if a few people would comment on this port and then I guess
> I'll create a PR to get it included in the ports tree at the same
> time as arla.
>
> Sound good?

Cool. Very cool :-)  Did you get i working on amd64 as well?

Cc me on the PR and you'll get a fast lane into the ports tree. ;-)

/Palle

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