On Fri, 3 May 2002, Jan Hrabe wrote:
> I think there may be more of us running AFS on AIX. With IBM support > pretty much gone, we were considering moving to OpenAFS (as we did on > our Linux servers and clients). > > So far, with every AIX maintenance update, we just copied the old > Transarc AFS 3.6 fsck utility back over the AIX updated version and > it worked. There are two problems though. > > 1) IBM may change the filesystem code enough to break the Transarc > fsck. > 2) Transarc's fsck may not work with OpenAFS (now or in the future). It should now. > Does it mean OpenAFS on AIX is not or will not be a viable option? > Any clarification would be appreciated. It means OpenAFS (fileservers) on AIX aren't viable without using the namei fileserver, which while it will be a fine solution eventually, is not yet due to apparent problems with the namei fileserver. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
