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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
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-derek
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To: Hoeteck Wee <hoeteck@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Update screws up AFS
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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 22 Oct 1998 10:50:03 -0400
In-Reply-To: Hoeteck Wee's message of Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:02:59 -0400 (EDT)
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Yes, AFS does require support in the kernel, however the AFS kernel
support is loaded as a binary kernel module into an existing Linux
kernel. The issue is that the kernel module must EXACTLY MATCH the
kernel that you are running. This is why there are so many AFS kernel
modules out there.
Due to AFS licensing constraints, we cannot ship AFS source code.
This means that you cannot compile the AFS kernel module yourself.
Consequently, there are no "source patches" to get AFS to compile into
Linux directly, since legally we could never have distributed such a
beast.
Linux-AFS works for _most_ 2.0.3x kernels. But in reality only 2.0.32
and 2.0.35 are supported. The 2.1 kernels are not supported.
I hope this answers your questions.
-derek
Hoeteck Wee <hoeteck@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Can I just clarify something then .. Does that mean that AFS support is
> provided in the kernel? Could we then alternatively download a kernel
> source patch directly and compile AFS support into the kernel? Does it
> work for all 2.0.3x? (I recall you mention that it doesn't support 2.1.x)
>
> thanks,
> hoeteck
>
>
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