[29066] in Hotline Meeting
Re: NFS/AFS Translators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Jul 10 18:43:52 1995
To: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Matt Braun <matt@MIT.EDU>, athena-outage@MIT.EDU, joanne@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 10 Jul 95 09:40:01 -0400.
<9507101340.AA04121@mozart.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 18:43:33 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> What is the status of AFS for LINUX? There needs to be some way for the
> ILGs to get to AFS. Is it now stable? Supported? Semi-supported?
I'm not sure what the official status of Linux-AFS is from the eyes of
DCNS. It is mostly stable. There are two known bugs in the most
recent release; I have a fix for one of them (the second is random
timeouts, and I have a possible fix for that, too, but I need more
information to confirm the fix works).
I'm not sure what support level DCNS cosiders for Linux-AFS. I plan
to continue working on it once I get network at home (probably by the
end of July). I would define it as semi-supported.
The distribution issue is a difficult one. Right now it requires AFS
access to obtain Linux-AFS. However someone with an Athena account
can download it from the dialups using ftp, so it may not be that big
a problem. Distributing it via floppy is another possibility, as is
creating a Linux-Athena Installation which includes AFS.
Further discussion of this should probably move off athena-outage,
probably onto linux-dev.
-derek
