Re: PATCH: Change in-kernel afs client filesystem name to 'kafs'

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sat Jun 24 2006 - 17:07:49 EST


Ar Sad, 2006-06-24 am 13:27 -0500, ysgrifennodd Troy Benjegerdes:
> Besides the syscall table modification, which is just plain stupid, is
> there any other poking around in kernel internals the openafs code does
> that shouldn't be there?

It certainly used to pull interesting tricks to hide its auth info and
had some "novel" views of the kernel locking. Given the cachefs and FUSE
work though we ought to be at the point where almost all of OpenAFS can
be done in user space and the rest via the fuse/cachefs work.



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