[2712] in Release_7.7_team
Re: In case further clarification is necessary.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Fri Apr 20 15:48:22 2001
Message-Id: <200104201948.PAA18324@shock-treatment.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:26:19 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:48:14 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> Garry attempted to build an OpenAFS module which works with the Red
>> Hat 7.1 kernel and, while it built, the resulting module didn't work.
>> It appears that getting AFS to work with Red Hat 7.1 is an open-ended
>> task.
Some followup: I've since built the current CVS version of OpenAFS
and observed that to fail, too. I talked with Derrick Brashear of CMU
about this, and he'd like to see OpenAFS support the whacky Alan Cox 2.4
kernel in Redhat 7.1, and later 2.4.x better in general. There might be
support "soon" but no guarantees.
One concern with using Redhat 7.0 now and going to 7.1 with a 2.4
based kernel over IAP is that the $ATHENA_SYS value would change from
i386_linux22 to i386_linux24, which seems too large a change for a patch
release. If we did this, I would think we would need to call it Athena
9.1.
Garry
