Arla on FreeBSD 5.5

[Jerry McAllister]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:18:19PM +0200, Gernot Hueber wrote:

> >>The 6.x issue is more tricky, due to that the vfs/vnode locking behaviour 
> >>changed. I had a loadable nnpfs.ko, but access to the /afs/* ended in a 
> >>kernel panic due to a locking issue... 
> >
> >Yes, I got OpenAFS to build and appear to install happily on FreeBSD 6.1, 
> >but also had it panic - or more specifically just freeze - the kernel 
> >when I attempted to do anything with a directory or file.   It started 
> >to complain about the lock and froze.  I presumed that was the same
> >reason Arla marked as broke on FreeBSD 6.xxx.   I wish I knew more 
> >about it and could fix it, but really don't know enough.
> 
> From my experience the OpenAFS server works on any recent FreeBSD whereas 
> the client never did or at least not stable. 

Hmmm.   I have had some people say they had OpenAFS going on
versions previous to FreeBSD 6.xxx.   

This was definitely the lock thing that was failing this time.

Anyway, I am glad I could get Arla going on something, even though I
had to scrounge another box and put an older FreeBSD (eg older than 6.2
even though 5.5 is officially up-to-date for the 5.xxx track) on it.

////jerry

> 
> Gernot 
> 
> 
> >////jerry
> > 
> >>regards  
> >>
> >>Gernot  
> >>
> >>>The maintainer is listed as:  tarc at tarc.po.cs.msu.su
> >>>who is not someone I know. 
> >>>
> >>>////jerry 
> >>>