i have seriously considered just making afs work even with a patch. the bulk of the work is going to be gluing the afs layer back into the linux vfs layer. if you dont keep up with that it can be tedious to go back and find all the changes you need to make (i know i did it for the 2.2 -> 2.4 port). the 2.6 changes in vfs should make it easier to add afs the correct way. there is now a per fs inode cache so afs can more closely police its inodes (and even get the right things for a dynamic allocation of inodes).
it would be useful to atleast something working even if you need to make a custom kernel (with the appropriate hooks for authentication). at a later point someone can hopefully get things changed to work the 'right' way. [while the linux kernel project might reject the patch perhaps the various dists would consider including it in their kernels? the redhat kernel dist used to have quite a bit of stuff that wasnt in the 'standard' kernel]. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
