Re: openafs bug 886768
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:49:36PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 01:56:12PM -0600, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> >
> > It's probably also worth noting that this is not the first time that
> > a linux security update caused an openafs regression,
>
> The only sane way to avoid such occasional breakage is to upstream
> the OpenAFS kernel module into the Linux kernel. As long as this doesn't
> happen, it'll inevitably happen again.
The IBM copyright and IBM Public License on a lot of the code would
make that difficult, as I understand it. But there is an AFS client
in the kernel, David Howells' "kafs", which is seeing active
development (but is not really in a usable state in the stable
kernel, let alone oldstable).
-Ben
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