Patches to get Arla running on FreeBSD 8-CURRENT

[Alec Kloss]

On 2008-02-25 22:23, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> At 9:38 PM -0400 2/25/08, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> >Can we commit these patches to ports itself, maybe with the make
> >file setup so  6.x is marked BROKEN while dealing with the problems
> >there?  Might get more testers involved ... ?
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> Or create a new port, "arla8", or "arla-dev".

To the best of my knowledge, the port I made
(http;//setfilepointer.com/pub/afs/FreeBSD) works for 6.3, 7.0 and
-current, except maybe for changes in the last few days in -current
which may have broken the port.  If there's sufficient interest,
I'll add 5.x support (via arla 0.43) to the port as well, but I was
hoping to avoid that, as it's a lot of overhead and arla's newish
block-by-block cache (thanks Thomas) which isn't available in arla
0.43 makes arla highly competitive with the OpenAFS client
available elsewhere.  

As for getting the port into the ports tree, I think everyone's all
for it, but Thomas is volunteering to help merge our patch into the
arla sources which I'd prefer over maintaining a jumbo patch like
what we have now.  I'm optimistic that we can probably have
everything ready by/after the weekend.  

So, please do test the port, and whine at me and/or Robert about
issues with it.  I'm trying to shelter him from the details as long
as he shelters me from VFS.  :)

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