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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: AFS Client?
Date: 1 Nov 1995 05:14:52 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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"Jon << JaMah! >> H. Mah" <mahj> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have an AFS client for FreeBSD?
> (or does anyone know where I could get one?)
> 
> Please e-mail me and tell me if you have any info. regarding AFS/FreeBSD.
> Thanks.

Contact MIT.  They did the NetBSD port.

The cookie crap for NFS is different from NetBSD to FreeBSD, but
otherwise the file systems are identical.

Writing a cookie translation layer would be trivial (as would
fixing both systems so the y don't need cookies for NFS directory
lookups).

                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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