Re: Red Hat EL Support Customers - Please open a support case for kafs in RHEL8

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 1:38 PM Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Gary,
>
> As far as I am aware there is no final decision either way with regards to
> inclusion of kafs in rhel8.  There are several components that were not
> merged into Linux mainline until after the 4.18 kernel on which rhel8.0 is
> based. These include not only AuriStorFS feature and openafs compatibility
> enhancements to kafs but the new Linux mount API which provides namespace
> support that kafs leverages and namespacing for keyrings which is needed
> for filesystem credential management on behalf of containers.
>
> There is no business case for Red Hat to commit a ten year investment
> simply to support legacy AFS deployments.  The justification for including
> kafs is to support functionality that will result in new deployments.  That
> functionality requires the new mount API, keyring namespacing, and even
> some features that have yet to be implemented in AuriStorFS.
>
> The door is not closed.  David Howells and the AuriStor team continue to
> fill in the gaps.   This week a request was filed to add /afs to the File
> Hierarchy System (FHS). Inclusion in the FHS is required by some Linux
> Distributions before a new roof directory can be added to the distribution.
>


Cool. Hopefully they might consider it for a "point" release then. Cheers,