openafs and/or linux kernel 2.4

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:27:02PM +0200, Stefan Kluth wrote:

> 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?

You can get 2.4.x kernel sources from the "universe" component.  Bear in
mind, though, that 2.4.x is on its way out, and (apart from not receiving
official security support in Ubuntu) will only become less maintained
upstream as well.

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 - mdz