suggestions & a question

[Peter J. Braam]

Thanks for your help it's all working great! (I haven't built my kernel
yet). 

Peter

On 23 Jul 1998, Love wrote:

> "Peter J. Braam" <braam at cs.cmu.edu> writes:
> 
> > Arla came up pretty easily on my machine. Congratulations.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > 1. My machine doesn't seem to have kafs and I get a linking problem for
> > fs. What can I do about that?  I do have vanilla MIT kerberos installed. 
> 
> We usully build with kth-krb and doesn't detect those errors,
> fs is pretty useless w/o kafs. Guess we should disable it when
> we dont find a kafs.
> 
> README:
> If you are using MIT-Kerberos or CNS Kerberos you can find a replacement
> for libkafs in http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/dist/krbafs.html. Then you
> need to use the --with-krbafs=dir option when running configure.
> Thanks to Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org> for making this
> available for the american users.
> 
> > When I have had more time with this we should see if we can't learn a
> > little more between each other from Coda and ARLA experiences.  In
> > particular, we could use one set of kernel code: you seem to have more PAG
> > support than we do and some other pretty neat things. 
> 
> The pags are one thing to use together. Another thing that I'm intresed in
> is the DB-servers that you currently are writing on. 
> (Yale Protection server ?) 
> 
> I don't know about Venus/xfs compability, I have not yet looked at
> your rpc interface.
> 
> > Coda kernel code is now also in use by a project in Australia building a
> > network filesystem so our "kernel/Venus" protocol is apparently useful.
> 
> Arla's xfs-module is inspirerd by coda's venus. (I'm not the designer).
> 
> > How stable is ARLA on FreeBSD (I'd like to build a kernel in ARLA as a
> > measure of stability)?
> 
> At least AndrewBenchmark work. I have built a kernel in arla for
> a long time ago. For now I don't know...
> 
> > Oh yeah, how do I get an AFS token?
> 
> Get kthkrb from ftp://ftp.nada.kth.se/pub/krb/src/ and build
> the afstools, or use transarc aklog (guess it should work).
> /afs/andrew.cmu.edu/i386_linux2/local/bin/aklog will
> probably be a good place to find it ;)
> 
> Love
> 
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