Hello,
I wanted to add AFS support on my FreeBSD 8.0 but I had many problems with both Arla and FreeBSD.
I tried to compile Arla from ports and managed to fix a small compile error (Arla was looking for readline.so.5, made it looking for the readline.so.6 lib) but after that, the compilation was a complete disaster : Redefinitions, thousand of warnings, undefined macros ... Since the Arla client doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, I dropped Arla for OpenAFS.
The stable version of OpenAFS "compiles" in the same way as Arla : Many errors, redefinitions and warning. Then, I tried to compile OpenAFS 1.5 and this time I could make it compiling after a small fix (#define INT_MAX 0x7fffffff in a file).
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work either. The AFSD service returns me a strange error (afsd: some file missing or bad in /usr/local/etc/openafs) and I have to admit that I don't know how to use it even after reading the documentation.
So I stupidly tried to load manually the kernel module (kldload ./libafs.ko) then I attempted a mount -t afs mydomain.org /afs. My system crashed, rebooted and booted into single user mode because the crash made my filesystem dirty :/
I don't see how to get AFS support into FreeBSD so I'm asking your help : Is there a special trick to know, or an altenative AFS client for FreeBSD 8-STABLE ?
I really need AFS support on my system
Thank you,
Regards,
Shuny
I wanted to add AFS support on my FreeBSD 8.0 but I had many problems with both Arla and FreeBSD.
I tried to compile Arla from ports and managed to fix a small compile error (Arla was looking for readline.so.5, made it looking for the readline.so.6 lib) but after that, the compilation was a complete disaster : Redefinitions, thousand of warnings, undefined macros ... Since the Arla client doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, I dropped Arla for OpenAFS.
The stable version of OpenAFS "compiles" in the same way as Arla : Many errors, redefinitions and warning. Then, I tried to compile OpenAFS 1.5 and this time I could make it compiling after a small fix (#define INT_MAX 0x7fffffff in a file).
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work either. The AFSD service returns me a strange error (afsd: some file missing or bad in /usr/local/etc/openafs) and I have to admit that I don't know how to use it even after reading the documentation.
So I stupidly tried to load manually the kernel module (kldload ./libafs.ko) then I attempted a mount -t afs mydomain.org /afs. My system crashed, rebooted and booted into single user mode because the crash made my filesystem dirty :/
I don't see how to get AFS support into FreeBSD so I'm asking your help : Is there a special trick to know, or an altenative AFS client for FreeBSD 8-STABLE ?
I really need AFS support on my system
Thank you,
Regards,
Shuny
