[209] in resnet
AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Feb 24 17:48:59 1994
To: sanj@MIT.EDU
Cc: resnet@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [207] in resnet
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 94 17:48:23 EST
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Sanj,
MIT has a full site license to AFS, and anyone with the appropriate
access to the sources can attempt to port it, without any need to go
through Transarc.
The problem with a linux AFS port is *NOT* Transarc, licenses, or
anything of that sort, but someone to do it. As an example, I ported
AFS to a Sun386i a few years ago, and it took me a good month to learn
what I was doing. At least now I know it a lot better, but SunOS was
a supported kernel, so I didn't have much to do. Porting to linux
would require re-writing all of the kernel interfaces!!!
Basically, if you want to see it happen, talk to the appropriate
people at IS and get source access, and then do the port. I would,
but 1) I dont have my machine (yet), and 2) I dont have a lot of time
to do it.
This should definitely be moved off the resnet mailing list! It is
no longer appropriate here.
-derek
