openafs and/or linux kernel 2.4

[Stefan Kluth]

Hi,

today I investigated the availability of openafs in ubuntu; this is
important for our site which currently has an afs client on every node.

The short answer is that openafs is currently impossible, even the latest
sources 1.3.71 haven't been migrated to kernel 2.6 yet (except unoffical
patches, which I don't count).

A possible solution would of course be to run a 2.4 series kernel, which
are well supported by openafs.  However, kernel 2.4 is not available as
image or source in ubuntu AFAICT.

Is it really that bad?  Should I get kernel-sources-2.4.x from debian and
start from there?

Cheers, Stefan

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