on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:17:32PM -0500, Andrew Perrin (aperrin@socrates.berkeley.edu) wrote:
> Folks-
>
> I'll likely be beginning work this summer at a campus whose network
> strongly encourages the use of AFS (which used to stand for Andrew File
> System). Unfortunately, the campus documentation suggests that it is
> available only for kernel 2.2.10 and below, and the vendor's
> (transarc.ibm.com) site says it's available for "RedHat Linux 6.2". Can
> anyone provide theoretical or empirical information on getting it to work
> on a debian system, preferrably potato and therefore 2.2.17 or even
> eventually 2.4?
Just some background, mostly hearsay.
AFS is *not* free software, and has been the source of contention with
kernel developers due to its licensing and/or technical implementation.
I believe it is the single source of an utterance by Linus himself that,
while binary kernel modules *are* allowed under GNU/Linux, they're
certainly not supported by the Kernel development team, and if they
break on a kernel upgrade, that's entirely the problem of the
organization providing the binaries.
While AFS may have advantages over NFS, its support under GNU/Linux
could be better.
All this very AFAIK and w/o research.
You might be interested in the AFS GNU/Linux FAQ:
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~x42/linuxafs/linuxafs.html
Cheers.
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