[OpenAFS] Openafs kernel module Question

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thursday, March 24, 2005 03:55:20 PM +0100 Chris Huebsch 
<chris.huebsch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Gessy Caetano da Silva Junior/LCC/UFMG wrote:
>
>> I'm trying install openafs and can i, on server, compile openafs without
>> kernel module?
>
> Yes you can. Openafs-Servers do not require the kernel-module. They do
> not need AFS-client-functionality at all.

Yes, you can compile the user-mode components without building a kernel 
module.  Configure with --disable-kernel-module

Whether you can run a fileserver without a kernel module loaded depends on 
the platform and on which fileserver variant you are using.  The inode 
fileserver requires the kernel module to be loaded, because it makes use of 
several special system calls provided by that module.  It does not require 
the cache manager to be running (i.e. you don't have to run afsd).  The 
namei fileserver does not require the kernel module at all.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA