On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:40:19PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> We're heavy AFS users here at Boston University, and
it's going to be a
> major blow to not have an AFS client available. OpenAFS, last I looked, said
> that it'd take them a year to properly develop a 2.6 version *if* they got
> some funding to do so -- and they don't. Arla doesn't seem to be going
> anywhere.
This is a fair assessement of the status, sans the "funding" whines.
It's not as if anyone else is rolling in money.
I didn't mean it in a bad way. Just time is money and all that. :)
That client (kAFS) is not useful for any real work and I do not
see it becoming one before well into 2.7.
Fair enough.
I think it would be the best if you found some grad students to
hack on AFS, either OpenAFS or kAFS. Both projects are amendable
to patches, in my experience, they just have no hacking cycles
to them. It's not important which one you decide to advance,
as long as you do.
It's not like I've got any money either. But there _are_ grad students
around here. :)
If you cannot do that, well, that's tough.
Well, it _is_ tough, but I'm surprised that we're the only place that seems
to have real interest.
To stick to RHEL 3 and OpenAFS would probably your best bet.
Does RHEL plan to stick with the 2.4 kernel forever?
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